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

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 01/09/14 20:33, 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".

It does not emit these sections the same way, at least not on DMD.

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/Jacob Carlborg