File size of exe: DMD vs LDC

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 5/9/2016 11:48 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> AFAIR, because of how ModuleInfo/TypeInfo is emitted which makes linker never
>> collect sections because they are referenced at least from there. LDC was
>> intentionally modified to change code gen in that regard to make --gc-sections
>> work - David will surely tell more :)
>
> It's something along those lines. What is certainly true is that I spent quite
> some time trying to work around "interesting" linker behaviour to make this
> work. You can find more details on my solution at
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=879.
>
> I haven't looked at DMD's related codegen in a while, so I don't know what
> exactly remains to be done there.
>
>  — David

Thanks. At least the deh sections are a non-issue now that DMD generates Dwarf 
exception handling tables.