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...ready works with -ffunction-sections until there is a concrete description of why that mode simply won't work. > > > Shankar Easwaran > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20130731/ce3a9f71/attachment.html>

On 7/30/2013 7:41 PM, Chandler Carruth wrote: > I've not been following this thread at all. However, skimming the original > post, I fail to find a nice summary of what problem is trying to be solved. The proposal is trying to garbage collect symbols that are not referenced during the link step. In addition this proposal can be extended to keep frequently called functions/data closer

I've not been following this thread at all. However, skimming the original post, I fail to find a nice summary of what problem is trying to be solved. By reading the rest of the thread I divine that the goal is faster links and better dead code stripping? Making that clearer would help. Naming your sections something other than "safe" (which has *very* different connotations) would