object file splitting for space optimization

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 29, 2001, Ian Thompson <iant@CS.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> how can i link in that object file but have the extra code removed?

IIUC, -ffunction-sections -Wl,--gc-sections would get you this
effect.  But I seem to recall some problems with --gc-sections in GNU
ld in a not-so-distant past.

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