From: gautier_niouzes AT hotmail DOT com (Gautier) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Object file linking Date: 10 Aug 2001 03:18:06 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 16 Message-ID: <17cd177c.0108100218.59908ecb@posting.google.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.40.39.20 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 997438686 16377 127.0.0.1 (10 Aug 2001 10:18:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse AT google DOT com NNTP-Posting-Date: 10 Aug 2001 10:18:06 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com J.W. Dare : > Suppose I have an object file with quite a few function definitions. > At compile time does all of the code in the object file get linked > into the executable or just the code for the functions that are > actually called by main. You mean at link time, I suppose. The standard linker does no unused code trimming. There are source-based tools like gnatelim, and maybe a gnu smart linker under work. ________________________________________________________ Gautier -- http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/gsoft.htm NB: Do not answer to sender address, visit the Web site! Ne répondez pas à l'expéditeur, visitez le site ouaibe!