any tool can shrink DLL?

Miki miki.tebeka at gmail.com
Tue Sep 23 04:40:15 EDT 2008


Hello,

> So, is there such a tool that can scan a DLL then strip the unused
> function's code out, so yields a small working DLL?
I don't think a utility from the outside will know about unused code
in a DLL? Usually the compiler is the one doing dead code elimination.

The only thing that comes to mind is "strip" that removes strings from
executables.

As for UPX, does the slowdown really matter?

HTH,
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