On 25 May 2013, at 06:22, Bruce Tulloch <[email protected]> wrote: > Okay it appears this problem is related to smart link; removal of -XX avoids > it. > > Given advances with dead code elimination in ld I'm guessing smartlink > isn't really needed these days anyway or is there still some advantage > to it at the compiler level?
"Smart linking" is simply the term used in the (Borland-derivative) Pascal community to describe dead code stripping/elimination. If you don't use -XX, the compiler will not instruct the linker to eliminate dead code. Jonas_______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
