How to decrease the size of generated binaries?

Question

I know that there is an option \"-Os\" to \"Optimize for size\", but it has little affect, or even increase the size on some occasion :(

strip (or \"-s\" option) remov

Answer 1

You can try playing with -fdata-sections, -ffunction-sections and -Wl,--gc-sections, but this is not safe, so be sure to understand how they work before using them.