[fpc-pascal] Smart Link definition ?

[fredvs]

fredvs wrote: 

> In ld doc: 
> http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.16/ld/Options.html
> <http://sourceware.org/binutils/docs-2.16/ld/Options.html>   
> 
> => -X --discard-locals 
> Delete all temporary local symbols. For most targets, this is all local 
> symbols whose names begin with L. 
> 
> I guess that the fpc compiler option -CX is using that ld option -X to 
> "smart-link" their program. 
> Without any "customization" (yes/no ?). 
> 
> If so, ld is responsable of the "smart-linking" and fpc has nothing to do 
> with it (yes/no ?).

None of the above has anything to do with smart linking/dead code 
stripping. It's about removing symbols (not the code/data they point to) 
from the symbol table of the linked program. 

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Hello and thanks for answer.

OK, so what fpc does if -XX is used ?
Does fpc sent some parameters to ld and if yes what parameters ?

Fre;D



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