linker garbage collector

[Senthil Kumar Selvaraj]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 04:43:06PM +0530, Sivaprasad wrote:
> I have complied my project with -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections compiler
> options (observed separate section generated for each function) and trying
> to use --gc-sections option while linking.No changes in executable size,
> unused functions are still present in executable file.
> 
> Binutils version used : 2.23
> 
> Please help me, to resolve this issue.
> 

Perhaps your linker script has KEEP directives for those sections?

If not,one way to debug this is to have the linker keep relocation information
in the linked ELF (--emit-relocs). Dumping that information via objdump
or readelf and grepping for function section names should show you the 
sections referencing those supposed-to-be-gc'ed sections.

Regards
Senthil