Removing RTTI from binaries

[Iain Buclaw via D.gnu]

On 14 January 2015 at 13:32, Mike via D.gnu <d.gnu at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 14 January 2015 at 09:04:50 UTC, Mike wrote:
>>
>>
>> Ok, but I have a mess of classes generated by templates (and I love it).
>> Their `name` properties [1] should go in .rodata, right?  But why aren't
>> they being put in their own sections when compiling with -fdata-sections?
>>
>> [1] -
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/blob/master/libphobos/libdruntime/object_.d#L81
>>
>
> Well, I was working a reduced test case and found that it has
> something to do with my trace.d file here:
> https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo/blob/master/source/stm32f42/trace.d
>
> If I add a trace.writeLine("x") in my program, then the binary
> goes from 2K to 130K.  Anyway, it appears it has nothing to do
> with TypeInfo.  I'll continue to try to reduce.
>

Could it be that the entire module trace takes up 128K?  Probably not
very likely.  And I doubt the writeLine/write templates contribute to
much.