tooling quality and some random rant

[Walter Bright]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 08:00:57 +0200, golgeliyele <usuldan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> The error reporting has issues as well. I noticed that the compiler 
>> leaks low level errors to the user. If you forget to add a main to your
>> app or misspell it, you get errors like:
>> ====
>> Undefined symbols:
>>   "__Dmain", referenced from:
>>       _D2rt6dmain24mainUiPPaZi7runMainMFZv in 
>> libphobos2.a(dmain2_513_1a5.o)
>> ====
>> I mean, wow, this should really be handled better.
> 
> This has been brought up before. Walter insists it's not a problem.

In C++, you get essentially the same thing from g++:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/../../../../lib/crt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status