Compilers these days tend to do a significant amount of optimizations. Do they also remove unused functions from the final output?
Compilers these days tend to do a significant amount of optimizations. Do they also
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Compilers these days tend to do a significant amount of optimizations. Do they also remove unused functions from the final output?
It depends on the compiler. Visual C++ 9 can do that – unused
staticfunctions are removed at compilation phase (there’s even a C4505 warning for that), unused functions with external linkage can be removed at link phase depending on linker settings.