* Win32 issues with Templates and Libs *

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Walter Bright wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Also, on the topic of OMF, you suggested once that OMF was a better
>> format than ELF? I've yet to see any justification for such a claim,
>> currently it looks a tad behind the times.
> 
> Elf has its problems, too.

That may be so, but according to D lore/rumours, it is actually working in
all cases, and on all platforms (in the sense that it isn't a factor in
hindering adoption to a given platform).

According to your descriptions of the problematics in the template/lib
scene, OMF is one of the offending problem areas. According to you, it
can't properly handle all use cases of D as a programming language. I have
yet to see an example where ELF produce similar problems (or even anyone at
all) when using D.

It used to be that D was considered to have second rate support on non-Win32
platforms, but I now mostly feel sorry for those users that need to use
that platform for D development (The mess that is DLL is M$ fault, I won't
blame Digital Mars for that ;). Of course, helping out on projects that
want to be crossplatform, I feel the frustration by proxy.

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