Case sensitivity when linking
Lewis via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 28 23:14:52 PST 2017
0. Try the following in DMD on Windows (presumably this issue
doesn't exist on Linux, but can't test myself)
1. Create File1.d and File2.d. Do something trivial in each that
won't get compiled out.
2. In File2.d, import File1.d, but change the filename case in
the import statement. For example, write
import FilE2.d;
3. In File1.d use whatever you imported somewhere, and compile.
When I do this, I get a linker error. If I fix the case in the
import statement, it compiles. It looks like this is related to
how the symbol names get mangled, and the names not matching up
once we get to the link step.
To me, it seems that this should either be:
- A failure during compile instead of link, with a more helpful
message about the import failing, or
- A successful link that is permissive of filename case
I lean towards the former. Thoughts?
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