From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>
Subject: Re: Why is memory footprint smaller when compiled static?
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 17:24:09 +0200
Date: 2002-06-06T17:24:09+02:00 [thread overview]
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"Jean-Marc Bourguet" <jm@bourguet.org> a �crit dans le message news: 3cff7ae7@news.cadence.com...
> 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.
>
Back in 1978 (circa) I wrote a linker. It was able to do dead code elimination, as well as to resolve all references irrespectively
of the order of the modules given on the command line. Sigh....
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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
2002-06-06 15:24 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
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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