I've implemented elfkill, a postprocessing tool that locates function names in macros like KILL(_ZN11ItemManager6CreateEv) and renames such functions' sections from .text to .dead. This effectively excludes the functions from being linked.
This will help us to manually kill implicitly generated functions such as ctors/dtors that were otherwise removed via the -dead linker option. We do not want to enable this option, as it currently kills many other functions that are meant to be in the game.
In addition, I thought it might be helpful or interesting to document the build system, from start to finish, with examples. This document will be updated as things change in the future.
I've implemented
elfkill, a postprocessing tool that locates function names in macros likeKILL(_ZN11ItemManager6CreateEv)and renames such functions' sections from.textto.dead. This effectively excludes the functions from being linked.This will help us to manually kill implicitly generated functions such as ctors/dtors that were otherwise removed via the
-deadlinker option. We do not want to enable this option, as it currently kills many other functions that are meant to be in the game.In addition, I thought it might be helpful or interesting to document the build system, from start to finish, with examples. This document will be updated as things change in the future.