Hi, Julian Taylor: > this is already the case with regular static linking, you don't need LTO > to remove unused code, the compiler only uses those objects from that > archive that are required to resolve all symbols. > … remove _some_ unused code. Lots of code the linker pulls in from gcc will never be called. For instance, it doesn't _know_ that none of your printf statements contain '%f', so it adds the heap of code required to print floats regardless.
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