[Issue 4541] Intrinsic functions do not have pointers

[via Digitalmars-d-bugs]

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4541

Mathias Lang <mathias.lang at sociomantic.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
          Component|phobos                      |dmd
         Resolution|FIXED                       |---

--- Comment #9 from Mathias Lang <mathias.lang at sociomantic.com> ---
I strongly disagree with closing this bug.

> Even though using core.math results in link failure, I do not think this is a problem since that is the runtime library and who uses it should know that the functions declared there are intrinsics.

Relying on user knowing of internal details is not a solution. Moreover, this
doesn't take into account generic code. If one write a template that accept a
static function via a template this argument, do you really expect this person
to handle the case of someone passing an intrinsic explicitly ?

Intrinsics shouldn't differ from regular functions.

> Anyway, this is not a phobos bug anymore and I don't think it is a druntime one either. Closing as fixed.

The correct course of action would be to properly tag the bug as being within
DMD.

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