std.boxer broken?

[Sean Kelly]

Daniel Keep wrote:
> Aaah, I see.  I actually had a poke around the .lib files after I wrote
> that, and noticed that phobos didn't have a debug .lib -- is that what
> causes it?

Yes.  Template code is kind of weird in that it isn't compiled until 
instantiated, but the DMD compiler generates non-template functions to 
handle in/out clauses and asserts.  So if you use a debug app with 
template code containing asserts and such from a library that wasn't 
built with -debug set, then the assert functions won't exist in that 
library.  The easiest way around this for library programmers making 
mixed-mode libraries is to always compile modules containing templates 
with -debug set, but this is only feasible if the module *only* contains 
templates.  This isn't the case for std.boxer, so there are two options:

* ship release and debug builds of Phobos
* fix the compiler to always generate debug code for templates and rely 
on it being thrown out by the linker if it is not needed

> If that is the case, would I be able to compile my own so that I can
> produce a debug version of my executables?

Yes.


Sean