On Monday, 6 January 2014 at 18:59:00 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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....
Hack or not it is pretty much the only existing solution for
binary bloat which is very strong in D. Shared library support is
completely irrelevant here - it does not fix the problem of
compilers generating lot of code that is never actually used.
