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Subject: Re: removing unused functions during final link
From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com>
To: Melvin Blades <melvin.blades@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Melvin Blades <melvin.blades@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> What command line options can I use to get the linker to strip unused
> functions from the final executable?

Compile with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections.

Link with -Wl,--gc-sections.

Ian