> i'm sorry my lack of deeper knowledge...but can't strip solve the > problem?!?!?!?
No. Strip only removes debug code. Linkers can do elimination of unused symbols (structured constants, procedures and whole VMTs), but there is a problem if a set of symbols are referenced in a table, and the table is referenced itself. Example: there are 1000 resourcestrings, and you only use one of them. Yet you use them via a table lookup with all thousand in them, so all are linked in. To remove entries from the table the linker must have a certain knowledge about table (e.g. when removing entries, adapt the indexes in the table used in the code) If I understood Peter right, some support for this kind of stuff is also in LD, but not for all targets (binary formats) and it is convuluted and hard to use. With the internal linker it is way easier. The same goes for elimination of unused VMT entries. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
