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From: Graham Stott <graham.stott@btinternet.com>
Subject: Re: Optimization, remove unused code from Image
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All,

It is possible to eliminated unused functions on many but not all targets
supported by GCC. 

Use -ffunction-sections when compling and and --gc-sections when linking.