@llvm.used does not mean the linker will not kill the symbol

[David Nadlinger]

On 1 Apr 2019, at 18:47, Johan Engelen via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> I think things work for LDC because we reference __start_minfo / 
> __stop_minfo and the symbols that we don't want to disappear are in 
> those segments. In other words: we actually _do_ reference (in a 
> roundabout way) the symbols in the final executable and the linker 
> sees that.

It doesn't even work for LDC – compatibility with older linkers was 
broken when that "simplification" was merged.

  — David