Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

[Paulo Pinto]

On Sunday, 16 February 2014 at 23:40:58 UTC, 1100110 wrote:
> 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.

However I doubt the other way around will work.

Linking all those nice D libraries developed with standard D into 
minimal D.

But what do I know, I always enable everything in C++.

--
Paulo