On Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:00:30 GMT, Matthias Baesken <[email protected]> wrote:
>> The dead_strip linker option on macOS removes functions and data that are >> unreachable by the entry point or exported symbols. >> Setting it can reduce the size of some binaries we generate quite a lot, for >> example (product build, Xcode 15 is used) : >> (before -> after setting the option) >> >> 1.4M -> 1.1M images/jdk/lib/libfontmanager.dylib >> 264K -> 248K images/jdk/lib/libjavajpeg.dylib >> 152K -> 132K images/jdk/lib/libjli.dylib >> 388K -> 296K images/jdk/lib/liblcms.dylib >> 164K -> 128K images/jdk/lib/libzip.dylib >> >> >> and libjvm : >> >> 20M -> 18M images/jdk/lib/server/libjvm.dylib >> 146M -> 137M images/jdk/lib/server/libjvm.dylib.dSYM > > Matthias Baesken has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Fix Windows issues Interestingly, we seem to rely already on the 'used' attribute in the OpenJDK codebase at some places, see https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aopenjdk%2Fjdk%20ATTRIBUTE_USED&type=code ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28319#issuecomment-3558965415
