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0 pointsjeffbee8mo ago0 comments

-ffunction-sections has 750k hits on github. It is among the default flags for opt mode builds in Bazel. There are probably people who consider them defaults, in practice.

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astrobe_8mo ago

Well, C and C++ together have around 7M repos, so about 10%. Actually not entirely esoteric, but Github is only a fraction of the world's codebase and users of these repos probably never looked in the makefile, so I'd say 10% of C/C++ developers knowing about this is a very optimistic estimate.

wtallis8mo ago

Looking at GitHub is probably significantly undersampling the kinds of C projects that would be doing static linking, many of which pre-date GitHub.

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0 pointsjeffbee8mo ago0 comments

-ffunction-sections has 750k hits on github. It is among the default flags for opt mode builds in Bazel. There are probably people who consider them defaults, in practice.

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astrobe_8mo ago

wtallis8mo ago

Looking at GitHub is probably significantly undersampling the kinds of C projects that would be doing static linking, many of which pre-date GitHub.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse