Bounty for -minimal compiler flag

[1100110]

On 2/17/14, 0:40, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> 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

Of course that wouldn't work.  It's exactly what you are trying to 
prevent by using this in the first place.