On Saturday, 11 April 2015 at 15:35:47 UTC, w0rp wrote:
I've been looking into compiling smaller executables, and the
trick I learned from watching sessions from the last DConf is
to use the KEEP symbol in a linker script with something like
gc-sections. So at the compilation stage, symbols
On Saturday, 11 April 2015 at 15:59:53 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Saturday, 11 April 2015 at 15:35:47 UTC, w0rp wrote:
[…] (Also LDC?) in druntime and flag all of the symbols like
this appropriately, so that creating executables with
gc-sections will Just Work in some cases without a
I've been looking into compiling smaller executables, and the
trick I learned from watching sessions from the last DConf is to
use the KEEP symbol in a linker script with something like
gc-sections. So at the compilation stage, symbols are put in
different sections, a linker script marks some
On Saturday, 11 April 2015 at 15:35:47 UTC, w0rp wrote:
[…] (Also LDC?) in druntime and flag all of the symbols like
this appropriately, so that creating executables with
gc-sections will Just Work in some cases without a linker
script?
LDC is shipping with --gc-sections enabled by default
On Saturday, 11 April 2015 at 15:35:47 UTC, w0rp wrote:
From what I just read, __attribute__((used)) in GCC should do
the job, and I think it should be usable from GDC with its
attribute pragmas.
I wouldn't mind having this functionality.
For a long time, I've wanted it in C in those cases
