What does the -betterC switch in dmd do?

[Mike via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 15 November 2015 at 15:34:19 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

> I'm pretty sure that the only things that are excluded are 
> module info and type info. It's still possible to use "new" and 
> all the array features that requires support in the runtime 
> (slicing, concatenation, appending and so on).

In my experience, the only thing removed by -betterC is the 
ModuleInfo [1]

However, there is a pending pull request to remove TypeInfo also 
[2]

I don't think it was every fully implemented to the author's 
intention, and I'm not sure if it ever will be [3]

Mike

[1] 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/mailman.273.1386260316.3242.d.gnu@puremagic.com
[2] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/5105
[3] http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lddug4$jgv$1@digitalmars.com