Re: [tor-dev] Size issues with Orbot statically linking OpenSSL

On 15 Jan 2012, at 20:47, Nick Mathewson wrote:

Another thing to try: recent gccs and their toolchains have a trick where they can stick every function in its own segment, then tell the linker to dump the unused ones. I believe it's called "gc-segments" or something. I have no idea if it would work with openssl, but it could be worth investigating. I believe there's a ticket for tor to use it by default when possible.

I found a presentation on this which looks to contain useful information: http://elinux.org/images/2/2d/ELC2010-gc-sections_Denys_Vlasenko.pdf Although post suggests that the Android NKD may have the relevant options on by default: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7216543/does-android-ndk-build-with-gc-se... Steven.