Ok, good to know. Since we're packing anyway, there's nothing we can do
yet. However, we've already planned to work on  a dynamically linked
version of Batteries. Just not for release 1.0

So back to square 1 on this argument.

Thanks Alain & Zheng


On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 15:10 +0100, Alain Frisch wrote:
> David Teller wrote:
> > I thought the linker only linked in symbols which were actually used?
> 
> No, it is not the case.
> 
> The only automatic mechanism for code pruning is at the level of 
> individual modules embedded in a library. As soon as you pack, you 
> obtain a monolithic module which can only be linked as a whole.
> 
> -- Alain
> 
> 
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