Internal linkage - equivalent of C++ global static and anonymous namespaces

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On Thursday, 12 June 2014 at 09:48:30 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> Why private members can't have internal linkage?

tl; dr: because private provides zero guarantees that symbol 
won't be referenced in ABI context. It only controls direct 
language level access.

It can possibly be done with analysis of all indirections but 
effort is not worth the gain.

I think getting --gc-sections working out of the box is more 
worthy goal ( unfortunately last PR from Martin had no practical 
effect here :( )