Ready for review of Formal Review

Jesse Phillips Jesse.K.Phillips+D at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 11:17:03 PDT 2013


On Tuesday, 18 June 2013 at 17:47:10 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
> There are corner cases.
>
> D shared libraries worked only on windows for a while, then 
> were added to
> linux (then osx?)
> D runtime loaded libraries will work on linux only first, IIRC.
> gdb demangles D symbols on linux but not osx (although not part 
> of phobos)
> because an extra underscore is added in mangling.
>
> sometimes, it's not worth waiting until all OS support a 
> feature to
> introduce it.

Your example is one I would classify as a bug (we aren't building 
a Go compiler).

Note that I also start with "Requirements can be waved at 
community discretion." Which is to cover the extreme cases where 
the community feels a requirement does not apply.


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