Need clarification on dmd symbol generation

[kenji hara]

Sorry I have no answer for the issue. That is still unknown area to me...

Kenji Hara


2013/4/5 Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com>

> I am currently investigating http://d.puremagic.com/issues/**
> show_bug.cgi?id=9571 <http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9571>and after brief exploration of symbols emitted to object file as well as
> code that emits them I can't rid of an idea that I am missing something
> about module system.
>
> Why does dmd emits horde of symbols from imported modules into object
> files, most of whose are not actually used in this one? No "-inline" used
> and I kind of expected to see there only directly called function and
> symbols from their signatures.
>
> What does actually happen here?
>
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