R.Smith via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> schrieb am Do., 24. Sep. 2020, 12:19:
> > On 2020/09/24 11:04, Sven Barth via lazarus wrote: > > Bo Berglund via lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> schrieb am Do., > 24. Sep. 2020, 08:08: > >> >> >If course there is. That's how the unit system is supposed to work after >> >all. >> > >> Yes, I realize that now. >> >> It means that the client even though it will not interface to the >> hardware will have all of the code used to do that included in the >> app, right? >> > > The compiler (and linker) only includes code that is used. Thus as long as > you don't call the hardware functions anywhere in your program (this > includes indirectly or through initialization/finalization sections) then > the code won't be in the final binary either. > > Regards, > Sven > > > Sven, I believe Bo's problem is that even though he won't need the Code > (which the linker/compiler will surely cleverly disregard), he also do not > even wish to "need" the physical Unit files to be in view of the compiler - > at least not the secondary-dependency units - when he references a unit > file in which he only needs a few declarations visible. > Well, Bo could always split the data type declarations into a separate unit. Regards, Sven
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