[fpc-devel] NONE smart link broken on windows?

[Martin Frb]

On 25/04/2026 00:10, Sven Barth via fpc-devel wrote:
> Martin Frb via fpc-devel <fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am 
> Fr., 24. Apr. 2026, 17:13:
>
>     See the example below. Complied on Linux and windows.  (fpc 3.3.1)
>         fpc  -O- -gw3   project.lpr
>
>     then using
>        strings project | grep TLIST
>
>     On linux entries for *all* methods of TList are present.
>     On Windows that is NOT the case.
>
>
> On Windows the internal linker can better omit unused sections while 
> debug information is enabled while with ELF it can't.
>

Is there an option to turn that "better" off?

As a user (if I hadn't learned how to deal with FPC debug differences to 
other development tools), I would expect those not to be stripped.

As a user, if I used a TList in my app, I would want to be able to evaluate
    SomeList.GetCount()

This didn't matter when GDB couldn't watch function call results. But 
now we have an alternative.


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Actually, what debuggers are used by core team members? Anyone still 
using gdb in some cases (including OOP targets?)

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Btw, any idea where the compiler stores the target pointer size?

The code currently uses
     tai_const.create_8bit(sizeof(pint))

But that can't be right when cross compiling?
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