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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by blattimwind on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:38AM (#19171212)
In my experience compilers are very bad at figuring out what is "actually called", probably because this is non-trivial in C and C++.
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Re:Why has Plan 9 chosen statically linked binaries instead ... by roblabla on Friday February 15, 2019 @11:44AM (#19172323)
It's not that complicated. -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections arguments to gcc coupled with --gc-sections argument to the linker will get rid of most of the fat.
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