Re: Bug#757941: static linking: alternatives for glibc?

[Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>]

Hi,

Julian Taylor:
> this is already the case with regular static linking, you don't need LTO
> to remove unused code, the compiler only uses those objects from that
> archive that are required to resolve all symbols.
> 
… remove _some_ unused code. Lots of code the linker pulls in from gcc will
never be called. For instance, it doesn't _know_ that none of your printf
statements contain '%f', so it adds the heap of code required to print
floats regardless.

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-- Matthias Urlichs