Voldemort Types in D

[Adam Wilson]

On Wed, 09 May 2012 08:58:56 -0700, Nicolas Sicard <dransic at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Wednesday, 9 May 2012 at 14:30:33 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/telhj/voldemort_types_in_d/
>>
>> Andrei
>
> One drawback of Voldemort types, is that they are incompatible with the  
> generation of .di files (option -H).
>
> See http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5461.
>
> Nicolas

This pull fixes this problem and a bunch of others:  
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/928. However, it  
currently fails to build on Linux and fails the unittests on Windows  
thanks to a problem with the dur template function in std.datetime. The  
solution used by this pull is to include the function body of the  
auto-function as that was needed to allow Phobos to build correctly using  
the DRT DI files. This is the only workable solution as DMD does not know  
the type of an auto-function when DI files are generated. No semantic  
analysis has been performed and since semantic analysis could change the  
layout of a module you wouldn't want it to be
performed.

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