Linker includes a lot of dead code from API library

[Anonymous]

Hi,

   

    Could you consider splitting API library sources into smaller units, preferably every function into separate file/module. This will give a chance for linker to include only the code that is mandatory for application.   

       

    Regards,   

   

    K   

[Anonymous]

 I doubt that linker adds code as files, it adds them as functions. Anyways please create a tech support case so that this can be discussed properly and in detail.

   

Regards,

   

Anand

[Anonymous]

        GCC can be instructed to remove unused functions and data elements from the final executable. You should make sure to include --gc-sections in your linker flags, and -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections in the compiler flags. All three of these are checkboxes in the Eclipse C/C++ Build properties for the project. (-ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections under Settings/Tool Settings/ARM Sourcery Windows GCC C compiler/Optimization, and --gc-sections under ARM Sourcery Windows GCC Linker/General). I do not know of a way to strip anything further out of the closed-source .a file supplied by Cypress.