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Subject: Re: -ffunction-sections, -fdata-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections
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>
>
> The results are interesting. On amd64:
>
> - devd suddenly becomes 500 KB in size, instead of a megabyte,
> - init's size drops from 900 KB to 600 KB,
> - clang becomes a megabyte smaller.
>

.. so, I'd like to know specific information as to why these three are now
smaller. So what's going on?


-adrian