Linker-hacking out the D runtime

[Mike via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 18 December 2016 at 12:57:08 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

> As a response to my last message in that thread, the changes 
> for classinfo generation is now ready to go in master.

Ok, I'll give it a test in the next week or so.

> However I already have ideas for future implementation that is 
> not so naive when it comes to looking up fields to assign data. 
>  How does a kind of tagging system sound?
>
> i.e:
>
> class TypeInfo_Class
> {
>     @name
>     string classname;
>
>     @init
>     byte[] initializer;
> }

I'm assuming this idea addresses the issue with porting druntime 
and leaving some features unimplemented.  If I understand your 
intention, this looks akin to Rust's Lang Items feature 
(https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/lang-items.html).  Please correct 
me if I'm wrong.

I'm not sure what you're envisioning here, so I'd like to hear 
more.  Would the user get compile-time errors if they used a D 
feature that required a druntime implementation, but the 
implementation did not exist?

Mike