rdmd & exception def & multiple files

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 8/29/12 4:52 PM, Charles Hixson wrote:
> On 08/29/2012 04:15 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 8/29/12 3:47 PM, Charles Hixson wrote:
>>> Where should I look to better understand
>>> rdmd? I expected to need to list all the local files that were needed,
>>> but clearly that's the wrong approach.
>>
>> http://dlang.org/rdmd.html
>>
>> To my surprise, it's not in the top Google search results. However,
>> Dmitry's shadow page is: http://blackwhale.github.com/rdmd.html
>>
>> Andrei
> Thank you. Unfortunately, that page doesn't address the symptoms that
> I've been experiencing, which while they don't halt development
> certainly confuse it.
>
> It's starting to look as if while I use rdmd I'll need to keep
> everything in one file, as otherwise I can't share exceptions between
> classes. (And I'm only guessing that the problem is limited to
> exceptions, as I haven't tested with other functions.)
>
> Since the small test programs DO call successfully between different
> files (including for exceptions) I don't really have a clue as to what's
> going on, except that it appears to happen during linking. And combining
> the routines into one file appears to "fix" the problem. And that dmd
> doesn't seem to have the same problem. (I.e., if I add a dummy main
> routine to the avl.d file, then
> dmd -unittest avl.d utils.d
> compiles and executes without problems, even though it doesn't do anything.

You should be able to use rdmd for that dependency pattern, and if not 
there's a bug in it. However, nobody can work on that without a test case.

Andrei