Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

[Denis Koroskin]

On Thursday, 13 February 2014 at 23:14:20 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
> I think it's about time I gave back to this wonderful community.
>
> I'm offering a $50 bounty on this.
> (Preferably Bitcoins, but I'll use bountysource if desired.)
>
> rules:
> Has to be called -minimal
> Has to fulfill Walter's original post. (listed below)
> Has to split the separate parts into different flags as well as 
> -minimal(-nogc, -nomoduleinfo, etc. Naming is left to the 
> implementer).
>
>
> This seems to be a good idea and has lots of support from the 
> community, would anyone like to chip in a few more bucks?
>
> I haven't set the bounty yet, depends on if multiple people 
> chip in.  I'll probably set it sometime tonight.
>
> Let me know what y'all think, am I leaving anything out?
> Thanks
>
>
> On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 19:43:00 UTC, Walter Bright 
> wrote:
>> I've toyed with this idea for a while, and wondered what the 
>> interest there is in something like this.
>>
>> The idea is to be able to use a subset of D that does not 
>> require any of druntime or phobos - it can be linked merely 
>> with the C standard library. To that end, there'd be a 
>> compiler switch (-betterC) which would enforce the subset.
>>
>> (First off, I hate the name "better C", any suggestions?)
>>
>> The subset would disallow use of any features that rely on:
>>
>> 1. moduleinfo
>> 2. exception handling
>> 3. gc
>> 4. Object
>>
>> I've used such a subset before when bringing D up on a new 
>> platform, as the new platform didn't have a working phobos.
>>
>> What do you think?

I'll throw in $300 extra (maybe more), but can you please first
formalize the requirements (list of flags, and what each flag
should mean, required unittests to pass etc).

I also think it's best to split into a few tasks (e.g. a task per
feature or compiler flag). This way it is:
- easier to verify correctness/completeness
- many people can work without interfering with each other
- easier to implement and grab a bounty