On 3/13/25 10:05 AM, Thorsten Blum wrote:
* 3) Deduping by the linker, which results in a smaller binary file.
Hmm ... I'm not sure that using functions like str_on_off() will result in a smaller binary file since the str_on_off() function (and other similar helper functions) have been declared inline. Additionally, isn't a linker supposed to deduplicate literal strings even if str_on_off() is not used? Isn't the compiler assumed to merge identical literal strings if -fmerge-constants has been specified? From the GCC documentation about that option: "Enabled at levels -O1, -O2, -O3, -Os." Bart.
