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

[David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 18:33:44 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> 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".

The reason we don't enable the -dead_strip option of ld64 is 
simply because nobody had time to make sure it works as intended. 
For Linux, I made the necessary adjustments to get --gc-sections 
to function correctly while I was working on the related code for 
runtime loading anyway.

David