RFR: 8371893: [macOS aarch64] use dead_strip linker option to reduce binary size

Tue Nov 18 14:38:17 UTC 2025

On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:05:32 GMT, Erik Joelsson <erikj at openjdk.org> wrote:

> I have a vague memory of some seemingly dead code being necessary for certain sa functionality.

Yeah I remember too,
We noticed similar issues when  using  the lto configure flag on libjvm  with gcc  (other platform and switch but similar issues).

Is there a way to attribute such 'dead' functions with  e.g. an attribute to pragma or something similar to avoid removal of those ?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28319#issuecomment-3547901166