#8405: experiment with using function-sections for linking (for smaller libs and executables) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: carter | Owner: Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.12.1 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.6.3 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by olsner): Another benefit of this would be getting rid of the satanic splitter, build system support for split objects, and any other splitting-related hacks there might be laying around. FWIW, I've been hacking at a patch to do this in the native code generator (https://github.com/olsner/ghc/commits/function-sections). It passes almost all of the test suite now, and generated binaries for a simple "hello world" did get smaller. But that's compared to a build without split objs - for some reason function sections doesn't seem to help nearly as much as split-objs... So that's something I'll want to fix first. I have also only tested this on Linux so far. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8405#comment:6 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler