DMD 0.153 release

[Derek Parnell]

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:43:28 +1000, Derek Parnell wrote:

> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:25:49 -0700, Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>>> "Walter Bright" <newshound at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:e1egd4$flk$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
>>>> Bug fixes.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/changelog.html
>>> 
>>> And what's this _smart linking_ that's so important as to be required to be 
>>> in italics?  ;)
>>> 
>>> Something big coming soon for D? 
>> 
>> Naw. "smart linking" is a marketing term that appeared in the 1980's 
>> that refers to the linker discarding unreferenced code sections. Since 
>> it's a bit of jargon, I italicized it. Optlink has been doing it for 15+ 
>> years, ld only recently.
> 
> Is a 'code section' equivalent to a D module? In other words, if I have
> three D modules, each one is in its own unique code section. And thus if
> I'm not referencing anything in one of those modules and I include the
> module.obj in the command line, the linker will discard that module from
> the resulting executable file?
> 
> Or is 'code section' more finely grained than that, say down to the
> function level?

Never mind, I just did a test and it seems to be at the function level.
That is, optlink discards functions that are not referenced even if other
functions in the same module are referenced.
-- 
Derek
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Melbourne, Australia
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11/04/2006 11:48:48 AM