Question about LDC and --gc-sections

[H. S. Teoh]

On Thursday, 25 October 2018 at 18:09:35 UTC, Jonathan Marler 
wrote:
[...]
> [...]  As an experiment, you could write a dummy main function 
> that calls all the entry points you need to expose and then 
> link it as an executable with --gc-sections and see how many 
> symbols you are left with.  I'm very curious about this one so 
> hopefully someone knows the answer to this.

I did a quick test, and here are the results:

.so file size with (and without) --gc-sections: 6.1MB

Executable size with --gc-sections: 8.75KB


--T