"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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