User feedback - recurrent runtime bug

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:31:47 -0400, Jesse Phillips  
<jessekphillips+D at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
>
>> To make this quest successful, you may want to reduce the code to a
>> simple test case and submit it as a bug report or post it here. As the
>> error you're encountering is the only problem you're seeing whenever you
>> try your code and an infrequent one for others, it's not impossible it's
>> a usage error rather than a bug in the language or its implementation.
>> At any rate, just describing how you feel makes it difficult to pinpoint
>> and solve whatever matter you've been hitting.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for sharing,
>>
>> Andrei
>
> Or you could look at:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2457
>
> Then there are other cyclic/import bugs:
>
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5053
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4384
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3979
>
> Which of course is a good way to find out if a particular bug has been  
> fixed or not. I don't know if the message will just be moved into  
> compile time (I've it it myself and haven't minded it too much, other  
> than it happening at run-time).

Compile time is not possible.  You cannot construct the import graph until  
link time, and the linker does not support performing any kind of analysis.

-Steve