@ctfeonly

[lobo]

On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 01:21:11 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
> I'd like to add an attribute to indicate that the annotated 
> function is only available at compile time so that in cases 
> where the operation is invalid at runtime (strings and 
> concatenation on a GPU for instance) but the result is only 
> used at compile time (for a mixin) the compiler is free to not 
> codegen that function.
>
> I can add this to LDC pretty easily, but does anyone else have 
> a use for this (e.g. shrinking binary sizes for mixin heavy 
> codebases) and would benefit having this as a standard thing?

Shouldn't the linker do this already?

Once the compiler has CTFE'd the function any call in the code 
should be replaced with the function evaluation. The linker 
should then drop the code out of the binary because it really is 
dead code.

bye,
lobo