Someone knows how to strip unused symbols on final binary using ldc on windows ?
i found this about this topic:

https://forum.dlang.org/post/yvmnkvzgoxhcfavjayky@forum.dlang.org

that uses --gc-sections and --version-script but this options are not avaliable in windows lld-link

On Saturday, 21 March 2020 at 01:54:00 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
> Someone knows how to strip unused symbols on final binary using ldc on windows ?
> i found this about this topic:
>
> https://forum.dlang.org/post/yvmnkvzgoxhcfavjayky@forum.dlang.org
>
> that uses --gc-sections and --version-script but this options are not avaliable in windows lld-link

That was about ELF symbol visibility and doesn't apply to Windows at all. - The symbols are stripped by default for Windows targets (/OPT:REF for MS linker/LLD). You can cross-check by disabling via `-disable-linker-strip-dead`.

On Saturday, 21 March 2020 at 15:53:53 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 March 2020 at 01:54:00 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
>> Someone knows how to strip unused symbols on final binary using ldc on windows ?
>> i found this about this topic:
>>
>> https://forum.dlang.org/post/yvmnkvzgoxhcfavjayky@forum.dlang.org
>>
>> that uses --gc-sections and --version-script but this options are not avaliable in windows lld-link
>
> That was about ELF symbol visibility and doesn't apply to Windows at all. - The symbols are stripped by default for Windows targets (/OPT:REF for MS linker/LLD). You can cross-check by disabling via `-disable-linker-strip-dead`.

Hmm, ok, my question is in fact relate to this kind of thing:
https://godbolt.org/z/NGjyyx

Why int example.add(int, int): its still on the binary when all u need is alredy optimized to
main:
 mov     eax, 30
 ret

?

On Saturday, 21 March 2020 at 17:33:21 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
> Hmm, ok, my question is in fact relate to this kind of thing:
> https://godbolt.org/z/NGjyyx
>
> Why int example.add(int, int): its still on the binary when all u need is alredy optimized to
> main:
>  mov     eax, 30
>  ret
>
> ?

You're inspecting an object file, before any linker and symbol stripping is involved.

On Saturday, 21 March 2020 at 18:01:55 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 March 2020 at 17:33:21 UTC, SrMordred wrote:
>> Hmm, ok, my question is in fact relate to this kind of thing:
>> https://godbolt.org/z/NGjyyx
>>
>> Why int example.add(int, int): its still on the binary when all u need is alredy optimized to
>> main:
>>  mov     eax, 30
>>  ret
>>
>> ?
>
> You're inspecting an object file, before any linker and symbol stripping is involved.

Oh, i thought that the symbol stripping was before linker!, my bad, thanks!