DIP 45 - approval discussion

[Walter Bright]

On 11/12/2013 1:46 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Sunday, 10 November 2013 at 19:34:32 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 11/10/2013 4:13 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> Actually, it isn't entirely clear to me why the moduleinfo needs to be exported.
>>
> That depends on whether using a module might require to link against the
> moduleinfo, currently it does. For example there is an importedModules property
> in ModuleInfo.

That's only used for initialization order.


>> The moduleinfo is needed to run the static ctors/dtors, etc., but that is
>> needed by the code internal to the dll that initializes the dll.
>
> Initialization order is not an issue here, the whole DLL (and all modules) is
> initialized before any DLL/exe that depends on it.

Right, so it shouldn't need to list it as an imported module.