From: Jean-Marc Bourguet <jm@bourguet.org>
Subject: Re: Why is memory footprint smaller when compiled static?
Date: 06 Jun 2002 17:08:09 +0200
Date: 2002-06-06T17:08:09+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3cff7ae7@news.cadence.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 17cd177c.0206060626.197bfd2e@posting.google.com
gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com (Gautier) writes:
> Steven Deller:
>
> # Normally linkers can't do "dead code elimination", though some are
> # getting almost smart enough to do that.
>
> May I correct ? I'd write:
>
> Normally linkers can do "dead code elimination", though some are
> not yet smart enough to do that.
The possibility of doing some "dead code elimination" at the linker
level depend also on the object file format and the way it is used by
the compiler.
--
Jean-Marc
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-05 11:37 Why is memory footprint smaller when compiled static? Grein, Christoph
2002-06-05 12:36 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-05 13:42 ` Mark Johnson
2002-06-06 0:02 ` Steven Deller
2002-06-06 10:35 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-06 14:26 ` Gautier
2002-06-06 15:08 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet [this message]
2002-06-06 15:24 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2002-06-06 19:35 ` Jeffrey Carter
2002-06-10 23:51 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-06-11 0:53 ` Robert A Duff
2002-06-11 16:45 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-11 17:08 ` Preben Randhol
2002-06-11 19:12 ` Wes Groleau
2002-06-11 21:38 ` Randy Brukardt
2002-06-11 21:32 ` Randy Brukardt
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2002-06-04 15:14 Preben Randhol
2002-06-04 16:13 ` Mark Johnson
2002-06-04 21:01 ` Florian Weimer
2002-06-04 21:02 ` Florian Weimer
2002-06-04 21:03 ` Florian Weimer
2002-06-05 11:10 ` Preben Randhol
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