Hitchikers Guide to Porting Phobos / D Runtime to other architectures

[Adam D. Ruppe]

On Wednesday, 8 January 2014 at 15:05:56 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> IIRC Andrei wants _d_newclass to be independent of ClassInfo 
> anyway (by making it a template).

me too

> Runtime variadic arguments need typeinfo IIRC. We'd have to ban 
> calling those functions with -fno-typeinfo or if any of the 
> arguments

...you know, they don't strictly *need* the data. Most variadic 
args are checked by doing if args[1] == typeid(int)... which is 
just a magic number comparison.

The actual classes and other info aren't needed. (Indeed, I think 
the classes aren't needed anyway since we can get that info 
through __traits anyway nowadays. In fact in my minimal.zip thing 
I have a template that makes typeinfo objects out of trait info 
to prove it.)