On 6 Jan 2014 13:45, "Dicebot" <pub...@dicebot.lv> wrote: > > On Friday, 3 January 2014 at 18:14:58 UTC, Mike wrote: >> >> I eventually tracked it down to the fact that I was compiling with -ffunction-sections and -fdata-sections and linking with --gc-sections and symbols like... > > > I never got --gc-sections to work reliably with D without going dirty, crashes were somewhat common for any non-trivial program. Don't think this particular use case is tested by anyone at all, you are on your own once you get here.
Of course ! --gc-sections is just a dirty hack. If you want smaller binaries, then you are better off aiding the shared library support. :) I don't ever recall any of the core maintainers ever endorsing that switch anyway....
