[fpc-devel] A small wish for FPC

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Thu, 27 Jul 2006, schreef ik:

> I have a "small" wish regarding the ability to work with FPC...
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> At the moment, if I'm using SysUtils, then it also adds all the
> resource string regardless if I'm using it or not.
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> At the end parts of the executable have a lot more content of things
> existed in units that I do not use, and sometimes even more then my
> own code.
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> The best idea I have to solve such thing is to use some sort of
> instructions for the compiler to tell it what I do need, and the
> compiler will check dependencies if there is a problem with my choice.
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> What do you think on this idea and issue ?

Well, the current 2.1 compiler has an internal linker which allowed it to =

be made smarter what can be removed. It doesn't include the resource strings
in the executable anymore. However, sysutils remains a heavy unit.

Dani=EBl