RE: Linking un-referenced function

[Jason Lam <jlam555 at yahoo dot com>]

This does the trick!  Thank you very much for your
help , Michael and John.

Jason

--- "Meissner, Michael" <michael.meissner@amd.com>
wrote:

> The linker option --gc-sections (ie, from the GCC
> command line:
> 	-ffunction-sections -fdata-sections
> -Wl,--gc-sections
> 
> Will do the collection.  You need the two -f options
> so that the
> compiler puts each function/data item into a
> separate section, and then
> the --gc-sections option will enable the linker to
> remove any section
> that is not referenced.
> 
> --
> Michael Meissner
> AMD, MS 83-29
> 90 Central Street
> Boxborough, MA 01719
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org
> [mailto:gcc-help-owner@gcc.gnu.org] On
> Behalf Of Jason Lam
> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:35 PM
> To: John Carter
> Cc: gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Linking un-referenced function
> 
> Thanks for the quick response, John.
> 
> It looks like these options will arrange the
> functions
> to different sections in the final image but it
> still
> doesn't exclude them.  Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
> --- John Carter <john.carter@tait.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 22 May 2006, Jason Lam wrote:
> > 
> > > I looked through the documents and couldn't find
> > an
> > > option to not link an un-referenced function
> into
> > the
> > > final image.  Does GCC support it?  Could
> someone
> > > please help?
> > 
> > Sorry, I got confuddled...
> > 
> > Use
> >    `--gc-sections'
> > option on linker and...
> > 
> > 
> > `-ffunction-sections'
> > `-fdata-sections'
> >       Place each function or data item into its
> own
> > section in the output
> >       file if the target supports arbitrary
> > sections.  The name of the
> >       function or the name of the data item
> > determines the section's name
> >       in the output file.
> > 
> >       Use these options on systems where the
> linker
> > can perform
> >       optimizations to improve locality of
> reference
> > in the instruction
> >       space.  Most systems using the ELF object
> > format and SPARC
> >       processors running Solaris 2 have linkers
> with
> > such optimizations.
> >       AIX may have these optimizations in the
> > future.
> > 
> >       Only use these options when there are
> > significant benefits from
> >       doing so.  When you specify these options,
> the
> > assembler and
> >       linker will create larger object and
> > executable files and will
> >       also be slower.  You will not be able to use
> > `gprof' on all
> >       systems if you specify this option and you
> may
> > have problems with
> >       debugging if you specify both this option
> and
> > `-g'.
> > 
> > 
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> > 
> > Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law.
> > 
> > "Things only ever go right so that they may go
> more
> > spectacularly wrong later."
> > 
> > From this principle, all of life and physics may
> be
> > deduced.
> > 
> 
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