What is the state of Microcontroller support in d?

[Dan Walmsley via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 08:48:05 UTC, Dan Walmsley wrote:
> On Tuesday, 20 June 2017 at 07:51:47 UTC, Mike wrote:
>> [...]
>
> How about creating a fork and calling it "SystemD or EmbeddedD" 
> just 1 compiler (LDC probably), do you think its realistic idea?
>
> [...]

Regarding not being able to --gc-sections, perhaps this was fixed 
in LDC?
http://forum.dlang.org/post/cxjubpxxknlkqvdgyibj@forum.dlang.org