Can I use static constructors for registration?

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Daniel Keep schrieb am 2007-03-26:
> Jason House Wrote:
>
>> In C/C++, the linker will refuse to include a translation unit if 
>> there's no call from another translation unit that's already been 
>> accepted into the executable.
>> 
>> Can the same thing occur in D?  I know this is an obscure kind of 
>> problem.  Here's some code that could be affected by this kind of issue.
>> 
>> import myRegistrationMechanism.register
>> 
>> static this(){
>>    register(functionNotUsedAnywhereElse);
>> }
>> 
>> void functionNotUsedAnywhereElse(inout int x){
>>    x += 17;
>> }
>
> If I remember correctly, OPTLINK (the linker DMD uses under Windows) does this,
> and gnu link has an option to do it.
>
> Now, using the gnu link option (--gc-sections, I think) *does* cause problems.
> However, OPTLINK doesn't.

That isn't due to the linker used but how DMD generates the exception
handling code: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=879

Thomas


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