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Subject: Re: -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections
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On Tue, 2013-09-17 at 14:56 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ... I'd rather see if we can actually separate out things some more so
> these builds can shrink.
> 
> Eg, if there's malloc related functions that aren't used, maybe we should
> break malloc down into a directory full of functions.
> 

Why is that better than using this automated solution?

-- Ian