Re: link-optimization in C

"Bill Fahle" <wfahle@airmail.net>
27 Jun 1999 00:12:50 -0400

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From: "Bill Fahle" <wfahle@airmail.net>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 27 Jun 1999 00:12:50 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 99-05-091 99-05-112
Keywords: linker, optimize

Jan Gray wrote:
>For Microsoft, see e.g.
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/devprods/vs6/vc++/vccore/_core_.2f.opt.htm
>; (registration may be required).
<snip: "function-level linking is not a mess">
>See the above MSDN URL for more information.




MSVCC++ Win32 Specific->
Note that if you use the -Gy feature (function-level linking), your
code-size may actually get BIGGER if you don't also use /O1 (optimize for
smaller size). In the case of O1, the comdats are aligned on one-byte
boundaries (and I believe function-level linking happens by default),
instead of the default 16-byte boundaries. The overhead of having each
function on a 16-byte boundary is usually larger than the combined size of
unused functions. There's a section in the help that describes all of this,
if you look for "executable size" in the search (not index) of 6.0.


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