[sldev] Re: dead code

[Ben Byer]

On May 23, 2007, at 5:11 PM, Dzonatas wrote:

> Andrew Meadows wrote:
>> Ben Byer -
>>
>> Your list undoubtedly contains lots of dead code however I
>> find some of it suspiciously alive.
>
> Compiler optimizations may have moved code from inside one function  
> and stuck it in-line in another. That would give the appearance of  
> dead code. The symbols are generally left inside the object file,  
> but they can be removed if size optimization is desired. I see the  
> default is to compile for speed over size.

Yeah, I think this is what happened.  When I get a chance, I'll try  
rerunning through the same steps with -O0 for both runs -- however,  
I'm not sure if dead code stripping will still happen with  
optimizations turned off.

-b