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Re: [ ld ] Going to contribute
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: "Yuri Rassokhin" <yrassokhin at hotmail dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: 20 Jul 2005 23:25:32 -0700
- Subject: Re: [ ld ] Going to contribute
- References: <BAY22-F314E8AF0274AF6C6B525B6CED60@phx.gbl>
"Yuri Rassokhin" <yrassokhin@hotmail.com> writes:
> I have a plan for realizing at least 2 link-time optimizations in GNU
> toolchain, that is, 2 ld optimizations:
> - Function inling,
I'm not sure how the linker can do function inlining. Can you explain
this further?
> - Non-called function removing (iff the final executable is being
> linked, or the entry point is given explicitly).
This one is already implemented, via the compiler option
-ffunction-sections and the linker option --gc-sections.
Ian