Runtime code reloading in D, part 1

[bearophile]

Benjamin Thaut:

> http://3d.benjamin-thaut.de/?p=25

>The pointer to the RTTI information for each member is a 
>workaround for a strange bug I encountered. For POD structs the 
>rtInfo template will be instancated, but for some reason you can 
>not query the results at runtime. It is possible that the linker 
>stripps the information away but I could not yet investigate 
>this issue further. If I can not query the RTTI information at 
>runtime I fallback to the RTTI info pointer stored in the “next” 
>member of thMemberInfo.<

This seems one of the situations where knowing "why" is almost 
more important than "doing": understanding the cause, and maybe 
even fixing it, will help future D programmers.

Bye,
bearophile