For the adventurous: News from the LDC/Linux front

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-07-10 15:51, David Nadlinger wrote:

> So far it is only enabled on Linux, as I made the necessary adjustments
> to the druntime module registration code and so on while working on
> shared library support there.
>
> That being said, supporting this should be considerably easier for
> platforms that still use the "old" __Dmodule_ref module registration
> mechanism, as the latter doesn't depend on unreferenced symbols in a
> magic section being kept by the linker. I can't think of any issues that
> would preclude using e.g. the equivalent linker option on OS X
> (-dead_strip) right now, or ---gc-sections on FreeBSD.
>
> But as with all improvements, this simply depends on somebody to sit
> down and make it happen. Getting the thing to work shouldn't be too
> hard, and I'd be happy to help anyone attempting this if any tough
> issues crop up, but if you are just waiting for me to find the time to
> investigate other platforms, you'll probably be in for quite a wait.

I see, thanks.

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/Jacob Carlborg