What's the deal with _postblitRecurse?

Andrei Alexandrescu SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org
Fri Mar 2 19:23:14 UTC 2018


On 03/02/2018 01:50 PM, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Friday, March 02, 2018 13:32:24 Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d
> wrote:
>> object.d includes this function _postblitRecurse that's intentionally
>> public but undocumented. As far as I can see only unittests are using
>> it. What's the deal with it? Thanks! -- Andrei
> 
> It looks like it was trying to workaround a compiler bug with regards to
> attribute inference and destruction with the idea that it would be used in
> emplace, but nothing outside of object.d's unit tests use it right now. It
> looks like all of the changes in Phobos that used may have gotten removed
> due to regressions that it caused, but _postblitRecurse itself wasn't
> removed. And it looks like the issue in the compiler may have been fixed,
> making _postblitRecurse redundant, but all I know is what I can see in git
> log and a quick glance through the related PR on github. I'd have to read
> through it all in more detail to accurately assess what happened, though
> it's clear that it's not used now.
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1181
> 
> BTW, in case you didn't know, you can use git blame to figure out which
> commit last changed a set of lines, and then you can search for that commit
> on github to find the PR that it relates to, which is how I found this info.

Yah, it blames to Jakob Ovrum. But I don't have a simple method to 
ascribe the blame to a specific PR. Is the only way to look at the date 
then look at the log? Thanks. -- Andrei


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