[fpc-pascal] Size of program vs library ?

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 16 May 2017, Henry Vermaak wrote:

> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 01:15:34AM -0700, fredvs wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Does it work for all situations?  I remember a bug for the rust compiler
> that broke libraries when --gc-sections was used, because it removed the
> metadata that rust needed to load the library.  One of the fpc devs can
> probably say whether fpc may have a similar problem.

You risk losing e.g. resources. 
This is typically what needs to be investigated.

Michael.