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[Don]

Jeremie Pelletier wrote:
> bearophile wrote:
>> Don:
>>
>>> I've often thought that a pragma for a module to "don't generate 
>>> module info" would be very useful for executable size.
>>
>> Do you use the LDC compiler?
>>
>> LDC has the pragmas:
>> pragma(no_typeinfo): You can use this pragma to stop typeinfo from 
>> being implicitly generated for a declaration.
>>
>> pragma(no_moduleinfo): You can use this pragma to stop moduleinfo from 
>> being implicitly generated for a declaration.

Sounds great. They should be standard.

>>
>> I've never used those yet, I'll try them soon.
>>
>> But you meant something more global, module-wide. Maybe you can ask to 
>> LDC devs. I agree that having standard and not compiler-specific 
>> features is better.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> I would much prefer these to be compiler switches, so you can make them 
> global with very little effort.

That's a completely different use case, I think. For internal modules, 
the existence of that module is an implementation detail, and shouldn't 
be externally visible even through reflection, IMHO.