April 24, 2018
Stomping the stack is important for detecting certain kinds of dangling reference bugs (shouldn't be possible in @safe code), but also for cryptographic code that aims to prevent a function from leaking any information to its caller:

  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/whatyouc.pdf

This should be controllable on a per-function basis, and the best way is analogous to the way the `pragma(inline)` works, i.e.:

  pragma(stackStomp) // default, meaning set to the setting of the -gx switch
  pragma(stackStomp, true)  // enable for this function
  pragma(stackStomp, false)  // disable for this function

References:

  https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switch-gx
  https://dlang.org/spec/pragma.html#inline
  https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/backend/cod3.c#L3919

The stomp code should also be improved to overwrite all scratch registers modified by the function that are not part of the return value or the registers already preserved by the function.0
April 24, 2018
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18795