Lib change leads to larger executables

[Sean Kelly]

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> Ideally, perhaps a linker could provide both options: link fast and 
>> potentially bloat the exe or link carefully (and slowly) for a lean 
>> exe.  I'd use the fast link for debugging and the slow link for 
>> releases. Assuming, of course, that the linker were reliable enough 
>> that there was no risk of changing app behavior between the two.
> 
> That might not be the case here: if a module's object file is pulled in, 
> that module's static constructors and destructors are called at runtime, 
> right? So if different modules are pulled in with those options, 
> different static constructors/destructors get called.
> (Same goes for unit tests, if enabled, by the way)

Yuck.  Good point.


Sean