Lib change leads to larger executables

[Sean Kelly]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> John Reimer wrote:
>>> optlink may just be the bane for D acceptance. And Tango gets the 
>>> pitiful
>>> opportunity of demonstrating why D is NOT ready for prime-time in the
>>> commercial realm: the DM support tools it relies on are bogged down in
>>> the past, reflecting D's lopsided existance on yet another level: a 
>>> strong
>>> language relying on a fragile, outdated, and poorly fit tool set.
>>
>> Linux's ld exhibits the same behavior. Try compiling the 3 files here 
>> according to the instructions below, and try different orderings 
>> adding the object files to the librarian (ar). The same behavior as 
>> lib/optlink results (using nm to see what symbols are placed into the 
>> resulting executable).
> 
> In your example, no symbols at all from a is referenced in b or in test, 
> and yet it's linked anyway in the first case?

Forget I said that.  It's the TypeInfo for char[][].