Where is the dead symbol eliminator patch?

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Mike Hearn <mike@plan99.net> writes:

> When static linking a library, my copy of ld (Fedora Core 4, version
> binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2-2.1) seems to drop .o files that don't contain any
> used symbols - this is good. Unfortunately, only one symbol from that file
> being used is enough to link in the entire .o file, which is bad.
> 
> ...
> 
> I've been told Apple have written a patch to make this happen. Is this
> true? If so, does anybody know where I can find it?

I don't know what Apple has done.

What you want to do is compile with -ffunction-sections and link with
--gc-sections.

Ian