Request for Comment assert(__ctfe)

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 4/7/20 5:17 AM, Atila Neves wrote:
> On Tuesday, 7 April 2020 at 06:55:59 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> Sounds ok to me, as long as the assert(__ctfe) is the first statement 
>> in the function body.
>>
>> Though I would check the linker map file to see if the linker didn't 
>> already omit functions that were never called.
> 
> I think the problem with relying on the linker is that the user still 
> pays with longer compile times for codegen that isn't needed.

Isn't there an issue for better C as well? If a function can't be 
compiled in betterC but is valid for CTFE, then this could be a 
potential solution.

I don't know how this works today.

-Steve