-betterC and extern(C++) classes
Yuxuan Shui via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Sep 10 07:01:17 PDT 2017
On Sunday, 10 September 2017 at 09:31:55 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> 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.
Is there a plan? Are there any simple tasks I can take/help?
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