<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>If you look at the pull request description, the intention is to create a dummy symbol to avoid a compiler error. Not sure the exact details, but the commit message isn't enough to understand why it's there.</span></div><div><br><span></span></div><div><span>-Steve<br></span></div><div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Arial" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jonathan M Davis <jmdavisProg@gmx.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos@puremagic.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, September 6, 2011 3:23 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [phobos] Please stop merging pull requests<br></font><br>On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 09:18:46 Don Clugston wrote:<br>> On 6 September 2011 08:27, Walter Bright <<a ymailto="mailto:walter@digitalmars.com" href="mailto:walter@digitalmars.com">walter@digitalmars.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > unless they are fixing regressions in the beta.<br>> > <br>> > The last time I did a pull to add in the changes to std.parallelism, it<br>> > pulled in a bunch of other stuff that broke peoples' code in the beta.<br>> > We<br>> > will never get the release done by doing things this way.<br>> > <br>> > The current beta breaks are:<br>> > <br>> > <a href="http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6606" target="_blank">http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6606</a><br>>
> <br>> > and Sönke Ludwig's problem with DLLs that probably resulted from a<br>> > change in druntime.<br>> > <br>> > Please, no more merging other than fixing these two issues.<br>> <br>> This is another pull request which shouldn't have been folded in. But<br>> it's probably harmless, don't know if we need to revert it or not.<br>> <a href="https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/42495b8c76f1018132" target="_blank">https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/42495b8c76f1018132</a><br>> 620a6128d40f170c782050 _______________________________________________<br><br>That commit seems utterly pointless. The function doesn't have any code in it. <br>True, it won't break anything to leave it in, but it certainly seems to me <br>that we should revert it.<br><br>- Jonathan M Davis<br>_______________________________________________<br>phobos mailing list<br><a
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