-betterC and extern(C++) classes

Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Sep 10 02:31:55 PDT 2017


On 9/10/2017 1:40 AM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
> I was experimenting with -betterC and found out that C++ classes doesn't work. 
> Because the resulting object file needs a symbol "_D14TypeInfo_Class6__vtblZ" 
> which is in druntime. I suppose this is to support T.classinfo?
> 
> Could we remove T.classinfo and make classes work under -betterC? Or is there 
> some other reason preventing this from happening?

Yes, we do want to move towards "Better C++" working in an analogous manner, and 
that means removing the typeinfo dependency.


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