Can not get struct member addresses at compile time

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 02:42:41PM -0700, Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote:
[...]
> Actually, it is news to me that the compiler can know (determine?) the
> address of a global variable.
[...]

The compiler does not (and cannot) know.  But the runtime dynamic linker
can, and does.  The two are bridged by the compiler emitting a
relocatable symbol for the address of the global variable, with a table
of relocations (offsets in the code) that the runtime linker patches the
actual addresses into when the program is executed.


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