object dependency analyser

Pedro Alves pedro@codesourcery.com
Fri Apr 9 19:23:00 GMT 2010


On Friday 09 April 2010 19:07:46, Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to google this but the words are too
> overloaded.  Does anyone know of a utility
> that can take an executable and tell me
> why each symbol is in the executable?
> 
> -Map is a good start at this but having a
> a dependency graph per symbol would be better.

Reminds me of this:

 http://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2006/msg00309.html

Saved my day a while back (as in, app wasn't
fitting flash anymore :-) and this made it
much easier to find what was pulling what).

> 
> The goal is to analyse statically linked
> RTEMS applications and determine why the
> individual parts of RTEMS are included. With
> this information, we can find unused code that
> is just pulled in.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 


-- 
Pedro Alves



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