why does DMD compile "hello world" to about 500 _kilobytes_ on Mac OS X [x86_64]?!?

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 17:46:11 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2014-09-01 19:28, Dicebot wrote:
>
>> This was supposed to be enabled by default in 0.14.0 (it is 
>> exactly what
>> ld --gc-sections does). Probably some issue with ld argument 
>> wrapper for
>> whatever lines OSX uses?
>
> It only works for Linux.

Any reason why it can't work for OSX in a same way? Assuming LDC 
does emit ModuleInfo & Co sections the same way it does on Linux, 
using OSX specific alternative to --gc-sections should "just 
work".