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+$(TT -betterC) enhancements
+
+Many improvements were added to the dmd's $(TT -betterC) implementation, most
+notably programs compiled with $(TT -betterC) will no longer reference unused
+druntime symbols, asserts are implemented as C `<assert.h>` calls, and phobos is
+not linked by default.
+
+See the $(LINK2 $(ROOT_DIR)spec/betterc.html, Better C) specs for more details.