betterC becoming unusable

[rikki cattermole]

On 07/11/2022 4:59 PM, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> 2. Array comparison sometimes fails to link. That's right `string1 == 
> string2` may fail depending on whether the compiler decides that the 
> support template in druntime needs to be emitted to the object file. 
> This is unacceptable. If I have to use `strcmp` in betterC, I might as 
> well just use C.

Lets dig a bit.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/druntime/src/core/internal/array/comparison.d

It is templated (so it should already be emitting correctly).

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/druntime/src/core/internal/string.d#L239

Also templated.

But why on earth is UTF-8 strings specially cased and not UTF-16 or UTF-32?

Thats not right...

No sanitization, its basically just byte for byte comparison. Which is 
the wrong way to compare Unicode strings anyway (and requires the tables)!