Win32 API Tango / using what ?

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> 
> I'm a little confused by this.
> 
> ----------
> const int qwert = 42;
> 
> enum {
>    yuiop = 69
> }
> ----------
> Under DMD 1.023, the .obj file sizes are:
> - for an empty D file, 349
> - with just the const int, 396
> - with just the enum, 605
> - the whole thing, 652
> 
> so they are generating some object code either way.  Strange - I'd 
> always been under the impression they didn't, but were expanded at 
> compile-time and then discarded.  D certainly ought to support purely 
> compile-time symbolic constants.  In 2.007, the whole testcase generates 
> a 666-byte object file.
> 
> Stewart.
> 

Enums generate typeinfo, which is probably what you're seeing.