Hitchikers Guide to Porting Phobos / D Runtime to other architectures

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2014 at 01:57:21AM +0000, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
[...]
> Anywho, let me get it back to the whole "minimal" thing....
> 
> But put a single struct and it complains
> Error: TypeInfo not found. object.d may be incorrectly installed or
> corrupt, compile with -v switch
> 
> 
> even with -betterC :-( :-( :-(
> 
> 
> I don't even care about typeinfo; doing my own runtime, I'd be ok
> with any function that needs it to simply fail to compile. I can do
> it myself with templates.

Couldn't you create some TypeInfo's with stubbed-out methods? Or does
that not work either?


[...]
> >Even the switch...case statement seems to be, at least partially,
> >implemented in the runtime
> 
> Yea, for strings. My thing did a stupid loop for string cases :P

Isn't that what the druntime string switch function does too? :-P Last I
checked, it was also using a linear search through the cases.


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