On 15 Jan 2012, at 20:47, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> Another thing to try: recent gccs and their toolchains have a trick where
> they can stick every function in its own segment, then tell the linker to
> dump the unused ones. I believe it's called "gc-segments" or something. I
> have no idea if it would work with openssl, but it could be worth
> investigating. I believe there's a ticket for tor to use it by default when
> possible.
>
I found a presentation on this which looks to contain useful information:
http://elinux.org/images/2/2d/ELC2010-gc-sections_Denys_Vlasenko.pdf
Although post suggests that the Android NKD may have the relevant options on by
default:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7216543/does-android-ndk-build-with-gc-sections-and-how-to-disable
Steven.
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