"LDC has the --gc-sections flag", etc.

[Abe via Digitalmars-d]

First: thanks to Joakim and yourself for all the recent replies.


> unnecessary symbols are not stripped.

I think that`s the most essential part of why "Hello world" came 
out so big for me.


> LDC has the --gc-sections flag, enabled by default. This will 
> significantly reduce the since of the binary.

Thanks to both you and Joakim for that.

Do you guys — or anybody else — know what the situation is with 
GDC?  Does it strip out unneeded sections/symbols/both, or is it 
just dumping everything into the executable like DMD-on-Mac-OS-X 
seems to do?

— Abe