Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

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On 2/16/14, 10:18, Elie Morisse wrote:

> IMHO an approach that would not involve making a binary choice between
> "full D" and "minimal D" is to add an option to make the linker strip
> druntime and Phobos' shared libraries (or any shared library, and it's
> not specific to D btw) to the "lowest common denominator" required by a
> bunch of libraries and applications. Wouldn't that fulfill one of the
> two goals -nodruntime is trying to achieve as far as I understand
> (saving memory)?
>
> And regarding the other goal, to help porting D to other platforms a
> stub druntime would be cleaner than a hackish compiler flag that
> requires many changes to DMD.

No.  Any library compiled with -nogc will be 100% usable from a program 
compiled without it.  Same goes for -noexceptions, etc.

This *is* a lowest common denominator.  And as such, the lowest common 
denominator is fully usable from code outside the subset.

All these do is error on whatever feature they are disabling.