No runtime attribute?

[ketmar via Digitalmars-d]

On Wed, 10 Dec 2014 10:46:56 +0000
bearophile via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:

> The #[no_std] attribute is used to avoid the runtime in Rust.
> 
> Do we have any use for a @noruntime attribute in D?
> 
> All @noruntime functions are also @nogc (so you don't need to put 
> both attributes).
> 
> 
> This could give a compilation error:
> 
> void foo(int[] a) @noruntime {
>      int[5] b = a[];
> }
> 
> Bye,
> bearophile
this can be useful if compiler will generate error message with exact
runtime function signatures. i.e. something like:

  Error: foo() requires '_runtimeA(void*, size_t)'

or even better: add a command-line switch to generate such reports.
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