We need this. If the only reason that it was deprecated is because it was unused, can it please be un-deprecated? I'd rather not compile with -d, as I'd prefer not to use deprecated stuff in general, additionally, I wouldn't want it to disappear one day :)
At least an explanation of why it's deprecated would be a start. The documentation comment doesn't address it at all.
The people have spoken. https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/f5445458ba0b727040790d43b5a42dedbce0e56c