On 5/9/2016 11:48 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
AFAIR, because of how ModuleInfo/TypeInfo is emitted which makes linker never
collect sections because they are referenced at least from there. LDC was
intentionally modified to change code gen in that regard to make --gc-sections
work - David will surely tell more :)
It's something along those lines. What is certainly true is that I spent quite
some time trying to work around "interesting" linker behaviour to make this
work. You can find more details on my solution at
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879.
I haven't looked at DMD's related codegen in a while, so I don't know what
exactly remains to be done there.
— David
Thanks. At least the deh sections are a non-issue now that DMD generates Dwarf
exception handling tables.
