On processors for D ~ decoupling

[Dave]

In article <e17um0$1hts$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Walter Bright says...
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>Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> Walter Bright schrieb am 2006-04-08:
>>> Right, I typo'd it. However, --gc-sections doesn't work on my system -
>>> everything is still linked in. But it does on yours - not all of
>>> std.string is linked in?
>> 
>> Correct
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>This is good news. The documentation on --gc-sections is pretty sparse, 
>I wasn't sure it was intended to do that, and it does nothing on my system.
>
>> $ ld --version
>> GNU ld version 2.16.1
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>I'm using ld 2.13. The release notes say that --gc-sections works for 
>it, but I guess it doesn't actually :-(. Anyhow, it is good news that it 
>is working on your system. I'll modify dmd to pass the --gc-sections 
>command through to the linker, and I'll not worry about older ld's 
>ignoring the switch.
>
>Thanks for helping out with this.

Might want to take a look at the gcc '-s' switch as well. Man page (under gcc
linking options):

-s  Remove all symbol table and relocation information from the executable.

It dramatically reduces the size of the executables on my system. Don't have
much experience with it yet though.

- Dave