How to import for mixin contents only.

[Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 17:24:51 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 17:22:58 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
> wrote:
>> On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 17:05:26 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
>> wrote:
>>> On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 16:51:32 UTC, Andrea Fontana 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 16:20:42 UTC, Taylor 
>>>> Hillegeist wrote:
>>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>> I wonder if compiler is smart enaugh to undestand that 
>>>> dependency is not needed at runtime in this case:
>>>>
>>>> http://dpaste.dzfl.pl/fd3bc2a839a3
>>>
>>> well the latest gdc isnt smart enough.
>>
>> So interestingly this will work if i add -ffunction-sections  
>> to my compiler options? no idea why?
>
> However my binary goes from 4kb with static text to 11kb with 
> the above change.

I suppose the linker optimized the functions away since they are 
now in their own section. But it seems a hacky way to do this.