static this not run?

[Nicholas Wilson]

On Saturday, 30 September 2017 at 08:49:14 UTC, user1234 wrote:
> On Saturday, 30 September 2017 at 06:15:41 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
> wrote:
>> No "initialising onError", the static this is not even being 
>> run!
>> I'm using LDC master.
>>
>> See also https://github.com/libmir/dcompute/issues/32
>
> LDC 1.4, DMD 2.076, DMD ~master and finally GDC all give the 
> expected result here
>
> "initialising onErrorinitialising onError: funcptr = 0x<some 
> address>"
>
> each time using:
>
> ---
> enum Status {success,}
>
> class StatusException : Exception
> {
>     this(Status s) {this.s = s;super("");}
>     Status s;
> }
>
> void delegate(Status) onError;
>
> static this()
> {
>     import core.stdc.stdio;
>     printf("initialising onError");
>     onError = (Status s) { throw new StatusException(s);};
>     printf("initialising onError: funcptr = 0x%x", 
> onError.funcptr);
> }
>
> void main()
> {
>     import std.stdio;
>     writeln(onError.funcptr);
> }
> ---

Hmm. Everything except for the main function was in a different 
module, I dont see why that would cause it to not be run, but 
then bugs have a tendency to do strange things like that. I'll 
have to dust mite DCompute and see what it gets as a minimal case.