Incremental compilation with DMD

[Tom S]

Tom S wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Tom S wrote:
>>> Thus my suggestion of adding an option to DMD so it may emit template 
>>> instances to all object files that use them. If anyone has 
>>> alternative ideas, I'd be glad to hear them, because I'm running out 
>>> of options.
>>
>> Try compiling with -lib, which will put each template instance into 
>> its own obj file.
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately it's a no-go since -lib seems 
> to have the same issue that compiling without -op does - if you have 
> multiple modules with the same name (but different packages), one will 
> overwrite the other in the lib.

To clarify, this is not the only issue with -lib. The libs would either 
have to be expanded into objects or static ctors would not run. And why 
extract them if -multiobj already generates them extracted?


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