[dmd-internals] Most important patches before release of DMD2.047

[Don Clugston]

On 9 June 2010 11:04, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On 6/9/2010 1:57 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 9 June 2010 10:42, Brad Roberts <braddr at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>> I'd dearly love to see 3516 (struct dtors don't work for anything interesting)
>>> included, in that list.  It's rather embarrassing that struct copy ctor and dtor
>>> were added pretty much specifically to support making a smart pointer struct,
>>> but it's still not possible.
>>
>> Completely agree.
>>
>>> However, I fear that the fix for it is going to be rather intrusive and would
>>> probably be better off waiting for the subsequent release.
>>
>> If we can get a patch for it, I'd include it at the top of the list.
>> But my list was only bugs with patches ready.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> I decided to leave it for Walter. :(

So basically, CallExp needs to turn into   (auto tmp = CallExp,
tmp.~this() ); if it's returning a struct with a destructor, and the
return value isn't used. But currently, CallExp doesn't have any way
of knowing if its return value will be used.
Yeah, definitely one for Walter.