"Mike" wrote in message news:cqzazaqxpwezignix...@forum.dlang.org...
If my theory is correct, GDC may have to make an internal linker script
specifically for D's code generation that marks such code as KEEP.
There was some discussion of this at dconf, and a custom linker script is
both straightforward and correct.
However, it is non-portable (AIUI) and non-scalable (ie you can't link with
c/c++ code that has its own custom linker script).
An alternative solution was to emit dummy references to the D symbols (that
would otherwise be marked with KEEP) from one of the existing KEEP sections.
(eg init_array)
This is what LDC is already using and what was attempted with DMD.
It may be possible to do in a nice way with linker scripts, but I would not
personally go down that road. I know others on here have a better
understandings of this area and might be able to find a way.
