[fpc-pascal] Size of program vs library ?

[fredvs]

Marco van de Voort wrote
> In our previous episode, Michael Van Canneyt said:
>> > 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.
> 
> That also goes for the main application. Such sections should be marked
> with
> KEEP() in the linker script.
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Yes and it is valable too for programs compiled with -XX.

Fre;D



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