Am Sun, 11 Jan 2015 15:15:38 +0000 schrieb "Mike" <n...@none.com>:
> On Sunday, 11 January 2015 at 15:02:07 UTC, bearophile wrote: > > Mike: > > > >> I'm building some code that is heavily templated. Therefore, > >> I have many very small classes. > > > > This is a non sequitur. > > I believe it is because nearly every one of the instantiated > template names is appears in the .rodata section, thus causing > the binary's size to inflate. > That's likely used/caused by the TypeInfo.name property. > > > >> Most of my code just uses classes as namespaces calling static > >> methods and properties. > > > > Aren't structs better for that? > > Not in my current design, as I also make use of inheritance. If > you're curious, you can see the code here: > https://github.com/JinShil/stm32f42_discovery_demo, specifically > the stm32f42 folder. > > Mike > I guess you'd see the same problem with structs. There's no standard way to avoid TypeInfo right now. -fno-rtti would disable TypeInfo completely but it's not implemented in upstream GDC. If you can disable TypeInfo for all classes open gcc/d/d-objfile.cc search for "// Put out the TypeInfo" in ClassDeclaration::toObjFile and comment out this line: "type->getTypeInfo (NULL);" If you only want to disable TypeInfo for some classes that's more difficult: https://github.com/D-Programming-microD/GDC/commit/f0614bc9480dacd1ec6bb75277d280afa96e08bb
