Compile-Time Only Function

[Moinak Bhattacharyya via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 11:29:52 UTC, Mike wrote:
> On Friday, 23 June 2017 at 11:24:14 UTC, Moinak Bhattacharyya 
> wrote:
>
>> My mistake, it's typeinfo that's being included now. So is 
>> memcpy. I don't know why, as they are never used at runtime. 
>> How can I avoid this?
>
> Unless you're using GDC with this 
> (https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/456), TypeInfo 
> is always going to be included.
>
> The only way to get a build is write TypeInfo stubs like this 
> (https://github.com/JinShil/minimal_druntime_experiment/blob/master/source/d/runtime/object.d#L51)
>
> If you're trying to use D without the runtime, you're going to 
> have to provide certain implementations depending on which 
> features of D you are using.
>
> Mike

I think there should be a decoupling of the compile-time and 
runtime library. When I provide a stub object.d, the compile-time 
function fails due to missing implementations.