Re: Linkers - making executables smaller

brdsutte@elis.rug.ac.be (Bjorn De Sutter)
24 Jun 1998 00:09:00 -0400

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From: brdsutte@elis.rug.ac.be (Bjorn De Sutter)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 24 Jun 1998 00:09:00 -0400
Organization: University of Ghent, Belgium
References: 98-06-103
Keywords: linker

Peter Hall (peterh@pernod.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I have a requirement to make executables smaller. I cannot use
: shared libraries.


Some optimizing linkers or whole-program optimizers exist. You can
find some links to such research projects at


      http://elis.rug.ac.be/~brdsutte/research.html


I'm myself involved in the development of ALTO, A Link-Time
Optimizer. While program size reduction is not the main issue in ALTO,
lots of dead library routines are dropped during the optimization. On
the other hand, ALTO tries several inlining strategies to optimize for
speed.
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