I read that perhaps the GCC flag -flto can remove those pointless calls if they
only return.
> The functions that are being called are referenced by the call so the linker
> can't remove them
see issue [#6134](https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/issues/6134)
So marking them as inline and then recompiling didn't work. With the way the
compiler currently works the extra bytes wasted seems unavoidable.
I think maybe it ends up not being a big deal because larger programs will have
modules that likely need initialization of some kind.
Can anyone tell m
Thanks for the response. I have read that and partially implemented it where it
made sense for my use case. I'm think this is a different problem however.
I have already removed everything that isn't referenced, which is the main
point of the article. The functions that are being called are refe
This blog post of Mr Felsing may help you to get minimal total executable size:
[https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size](https://hookrace.net/blog/nim-binary-size)/
Hello,
I am examining the generated assembly of my toy program for msp430 and I think
I might be do something incorrectly. Regardless, I would like to fix this.
Here is a portion of the listing using objdump -d . I will
annotate the call addresses with the symbol name:
813e :
