On 2 September 2014 01:03, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Monday, 1 September 2014 at 22:17:13 UTC, Abe wrote: >> >> Do you guys — or anybody else — know what the situation is with GDC? Does >> it strip out unneeded sections/symbols/both, or is it just dumping >> everything into the executable like DMD-on-Mac-OS-X seems to do? > > > GDC does not strip unneeded stuff by default on any OS, and generates by far > the biggest executables in my experience (though some of it is due to > druntime/Phobos debug info which you can manually strip out afterwards). >
make install-strip ! Though I'd imagine that libgcc is likely one of the main contributors to the notably stouter application size vs dmd/ldc. Someone should actually study where the symbols come from. Iain.
