from my limited understand using LTO is a better alternative to -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections + gc-sections because the compiler and linker has more i

from my limited understand using LTO is a better alternative to -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections + gc-sections because the compiler and linker has more information. Size reductions are often a little bit better for LTO than for gc-sections. Check this article series: https://lwn.net/Articles/744507/ https://lwn.net/Articles/744507/