On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 03:43:42 UTC, Nicholas Wilson
wrote:
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Do you have any other ideas about how to achieve this other
than an attribute?
Having an attribute seems the most simple and straightforward.
llvm has "Aggressive Dead Code Elimination"- and "Dead Code
Elimination"-switches, who I find interesting.
https://llvm.org/docs/Passes.html#transform-passes
I remember once I actually stripped off kinda 99% of a statically
linked phobos-library with that and I got a small executable who
was still working
