On Mon, 22 May 2006, Jason Lam wrote:
I looked through the documents and couldn't find an option to not link an un-referenced function into the final image. Does GCC support it? Could someone please help?
Tends to occur at the linker script level...
From the ld info file...
Input Section and Garbage Collection .................................... When link-time garbage collection is in use (`--gc-sections'), it is often useful to mark sections that should not be eliminated. This is accomplished by surrounding an input section's wildcard entry with `KEEP()', as in `KEEP(*(.init))' or `KEEP(SORT_BY_NAME(*)(.ctors))'. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait Electronics Fax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 Christchurch Email : john.carter@xxxxxxxxxx New Zealand Carter's Clarification of Murphy's Law. "Things only ever go right so that they may go more spectacularly wrong later."
From this principle, all of life and physics may be deduced.
