On Wednesday, 21 December 2011 at 19:04:21 UTC, Artur Skawina
wrote:
gc'ed sections, i notice ld does claim to have removed eg
".text._D11gcfuncdata218_sharedStaticCtor3FZv", which is one of
the ctors.
The reason things still work is because the code is also
inlined in "_D11gcfuncdata215__modsharedctorFZv" together with
the other ctor. Aha, the compiler (gdc) actually inlined all
the [cd]tors when run at -O3,
and the "real" constructor was then garbage collected by the
linker. Phew.
Compiling with -O2 makes modsharedctor call all the ctors
instead, and they are then not gc'ed.
Why the compiler emits the unused outofline ctors is another
question.
Maybe i should start marking them as private?...
Maybe they should be marked by the compiler as private by default?
