User feedback - recurrent runtime bug

[Iain Buclaw]

== Quote from Steven Schveighoffer (schveiguy at yahoo.com)'s article
> On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:31:47 -0400, Jesse Phillips
> <jessekphillips+D at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Andrei Alexandrescu Wrote:
> >
> >> To make this quest successful, you may want to reduce the code to a
> >> simple test case and submit it as a bug report or post it here. As the
> >> error you're encountering is the only problem you're seeing whenever you
> >> try your code and an infrequent one for others, it's not impossible it's
> >> a usage error rather than a bug in the language or its implementation.
> >> At any rate, just describing how you feel makes it difficult to pinpoint
> >> and solve whatever matter you've been hitting.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks for sharing,
> >>
> >> Andrei
> >
> > Or you could look at:
> >
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2457
> >
> > Then there are other cyclic/import bugs:
> >
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5053
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4384
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3979
> >
> > Which of course is a good way to find out if a particular bug has been
> > fixed or not. I don't know if the message will just be moved into
> > compile time (I've it it myself and haven't minded it too much, other
> > than it happening at run-time).
> Compile time is not possible.  You cannot construct the import graph until
> link time, and the linker does not support performing any kind of analysis.
> -Steve

Agreed, and what makes the plot thicker is that it also depends on the *order*
that you send files to the linker too.

Bug report from Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=583837

Regards
Iain