"The std.stdio package imports most the standard library" etc.

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 01/09/14 02:10, Abe wrote:
> Thanks, Adam.
>
> Is this roughly the same on all relevant platforms for DMD?
>
> I was thinking [hoping?] that maybe this was a problem vis-a-vis the Mac
> OS X linker, i.e. a situation such that the linker isn`t dropping
> anything from the referenced libraries, even when the majority of the
> stuff in those library files is not being used in the
> currently-being-linked object file.

It's not just a problem with the linker on OS X. The same problem exists 
on Linux and Windows as well. On Linux with LDC the --gc-sections flag 
is used which will reduce the binary size.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg