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by echochar 3793 days ago
How about a tool to "exclude what you don't use"?

I have several personal hacks for doing this I have written over the years but I've yet to find anyone else who tried to automate it.

For example, one task is to determine the functions in a library that are not actually used in your program and exclude those from linking, instead of blindly linking libraries full of unused functions (that sometimes cause name conflicts).