@ctfeonly

Michał mmcomando at gmail.com
Thu Dec 7 09:45:47 UTC 2017


On Thursday, 7 December 2017 at 01:21:11 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
> I'd like to add an attribute to indicate that the annotated 
> function is only available at compile time so that in cases 
> where the operation is invalid at runtime (strings and 
> concatenation on a GPU for instance) but the result is only 
> used at compile time (for a mixin) the compiler is free to not 
> codegen that function.
>
> I can add this to LDC pretty easily, but does anyone else have 
> a use for this (e.g. shrinking binary sizes for mixin heavy 
> codebases) and would benefit having this as a standard thing?

I once tried to use dmd's -vgc option but it is not so useful 
when all CTFE funtions to generate D code trigger warnings about 
GC alcoations.

I think such an attribute would silence this warnings, dmd -vgc 
would be much cleaner then.


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