Re: Strange behaviour of linker (vc++)

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From: Philip Lawatsch (philip_at_waug.at)
Date: 09/27/04 

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 20:21:03 +0200

Igor Tandetnik wrote:

> You can force an inclusion of the symbol with /INCLUDE linker command
> line option, but that kinda defeats the purpose.

Well, I disagree. At least partially. I suppose one has reasons as to
why one would initialise a static variable via a function.

Anyway, I have tons of such things and they work fine with g++. So, is
there anything I can do to force all "dead" code into my binary? Its not
reasonable to specify every symbol per hand, this is hell a lot of work.

> Needed how? As far as linker is concerned, no outside module ever
> references this symbol, so it does not need to be included.

Yea, but there is a function wich initialises a static in there. This
function references outside stuff. So imo the linker should not discard it.

kind regards Philip

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