dmd -betterC

[Mike via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 08:31:30 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/19/2017 11:28 PM, Mike wrote:
>> As I understand it, this requires some cooperation between the 
>> compiler and the linker.
>
> We don't control the linker. We could do a lot if we did, but 
> we don't.

I know, but you do know what linker features exists and how the 
linker works, and could generate better intermediate code that 
could allow the linker to more effectively identify and remove 
dead code.