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Kunal
Kunal

Reputation: 135

Linker not including unreffrenced array

I have an array in my code which is not called by any function but I need this array, as it is array of address of executables, which microprocessor will call

My query is while I compile the array it is visible in .a file (library) but when I link all the .a files this array does not comes in the final .bin file. It comes when I use it somewhere but otherwise it is not coming in final .bin file

Upvotes: 0

Views: 42

Answers (1)

Jasen
Jasen

Reputation: 12422

The linker only includes used objects in the final binary, if the array isn't used it won't be included.

Cast it to void somewhere:

 main()
   {
    (void)funcarray;

   }

then it will count as being used.

Upvotes: 1

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