#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 refold): Replying to [comment:9 olsner]:
[...] that made my "hello world" 10% smaller with sections than with
split-objs (20% diff after stripping). Very cool, thanks for working on this! Link times with `--gc-sections` should be also much faster than with split-objs, especially for something like OpenGL. And it looks like `--gc-sections` [https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p =binutils-gdb.git;h=0f088b2a9417b1d4ed597849ffa671eba25f5051 is now finally supported on Windows] (though the patch still needs testing). -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/8405#comment:10 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler