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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> some of my functions which are not used in the final
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> executable are optimized away by the clang++ linker.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> Is there any way to prevent clang++ to strip away
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">> these functions ? </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">The obvious question first: why is this a problem? If they are not used, why do you need them?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">An easy way to keep them around is to create a reference to them, so that they are "used"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">in some way. Calls to them, or pointers to them stored in globals, should do the trick. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#1F497D">John Dallman
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