Compiler switches in source code

Daniel N no at public.email
Sun Feb 14 08:41:11 UTC 2021


On Sunday, 14 February 2021 at 07:56:43 UTC, Vinod K Chandran 
wrote:
> Why Compiler Writers Accept instructions for the compiler as 
> compiler switches rather than through the source code. What's 
> wrong with providing options like "L/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS" through 
> the source code?

You are in luck, dmd does provide support for this...
https://dlang.org/spec/pragma.html#linkerDirective
... and it's wonderful, I wish all compilers followed suit.



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