On processors for D ~ decoupling

[Walter Bright]

Thomas Kuehne wrote:
> Walter Bright schrieb am 2006-04-06:
>> Although there is a lot of code in std.string, unreferenced free 
>> functions in it should be discarded by the linker. A check of the 
>> generated .map file should verify this - it is certainly supposed to 
>> work that way.
> 
> That's not what is happening on Linux:

Hmm. I tried --gc-symbols, which is supposed to do it, but nothing 
happens (even when I try it on C++ files). Can you try --gc-symbols on 
your system?