On 4 Nov 2005, at 05:01, John Stiles wrote:
I already know which files define and reference my various symbols.
What I want to know is, why does the linker think that there is a
path from the entrypoint (main) to these functions? I am pretty darn
positive there isn't such a path, since like I said, I even went so
far as to comment out all references to these functions from the
main code. At that point, you can remove the cpp's in question and
the app compiles/links fine (of course, it doesn't run since I've
commented out crucial logic); if you put the cpp's back, they start
showing up in "nm" dumps, even though the app is still not
referencing the code.
I'm stumped; I'm pretty positive this is just a linker bug. It would
be great if there were an option to have the linker show a debug log
like this when it is dead stripping:
_start: entrypoint
_start: references main
main: references foo
foo: references bar
bar: references YOUR_SYMBOL_HERE
Are you passing -dead_strip to ld ?
