[fpc-pascal] Size of program vs library ?

[fredvs]

noreply wrote
> On 2017-05-15 04:26, fredvs wrote:
>> After lot of fight, there is a solution: using -*-gc-sections*.
>> 
>> And the question was :
>> 
>> /Why FPC does not provide --gc-sections to the linker with the -XX 
>> paramer
>> for libraries ? (Bug ?) /
> 
> 
> Hopefully that's all there is to it, but how do you know that this 
> doesn't just work for your current code and is not reliable for all 
> situations?
> 
> If that's all there is too it, that's cool! But maybe fpc left it out 
> for a reason: like it only works in some test cases of libraries, but 
> not all test cases?
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It works for all situations, so I propose that fpc add --gc-sections as
parameter for the linker if the user has used -XX parameter to compile a
library.

Fre;D



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