Incremental compilation with DMD

[Walter Bright]

Tom S wrote:
> When building my second largest project, DMD eats up about 1.2GB of 
> memory and dies (even without -g). Luckily, xfBuild allows me to set the 
> limit of modules to be compiled at a time, so when I cap it to 200, it 
> compiled... but didn't link :( Somewhere in the process a library is 
> created that confuses OPTLINK as well as "lib -l". There's one symbol in 
> it that neither of these are unable to see and it results in an 
> undefined reference when linking. The symbol is clearly there when using 
> a lib dumping tool from DDL or "libunres -d -c". I've dropped the lib at 
> http://h3.team0xf.com/strangeLib.7z . The symbol in question is 
> compressed and this newsgroup probably won't chew the non-ansi chars 
> well, but it can be found via a regex "D2xf3omg4core.*ctFromRealVee0P0Z".

Please post to bugzilla.


> One thing slowing this tool down is the need to call the librarian 
> multiple times. DMD -lib will sometimes generate multiple objects with 
> the same name

Please post to bugzilla.