tooling quality and some random rant

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-02-13 07:52, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "golgeliyele"<usuldan at gmail.com>  wrote in message
>> 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.
>>
>
> That's not the compiler, that's the linker. I don't know what linker DMD
> uses on OSX, but on Windows it uses OPTLINK which is written in
> hand-optimized Asm so it's really hard to change. But Walter's been
> converting it to C (and maybe then to D once that's done) bit-by-bit (so to
> speak), so linker improvements are at least on the horizon.
>
> AIUI, on Linux, DMD just uses the GCC linker, and GCC unfortunately doesn't
> know anything about D name mangling, just C/C++.  Might be true of OSX as
> well, I don't know though.

As you know, on Windows DMD uses OPTLINK and on all other platforms GCC 
is used.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg