murf@CS.UTEXAS.EDU (Steve Murphy) (10/19/89)
The idea occurred to me: Would it not be good if static functions that are unreference within a file be deleted by the optimizer? I know the compiler knows they are unreferenced; it issues messages about them if -Wunused is specified. If this makes people nervous, how about the option -fdelUnrefdStatFuncs or some such? I've got autogenerated code where this would drop nearly a quarter meg from the size of the binary! I know, it's stupid, I think so too, but it's machine generated, and of course, I don't have any access to the source for the generator. They are generated "just in case", but not used in most files. murf