Request for Review: DI Generation Improvements

[Adam Wilson]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:16:19 -0700, timotheecour  
<thelastmammoth at gmail.com> wrote:

>> mixin Instantiate!(foo,int);
> Thanks for the syntax tip!
>
>> You could use cp instead of dmd -H.
> That won't produce the same output (eg large functions tend to be  
> stripped currently), but I guess the current behavior is relatively  
> useless so it's fine.
>
>
>> want you are after. Such a thing could actually be done except
>> for OMF/Optlink. Since OMF doesn't support custom sections
>> there is a no special place to store the code that the compiler
>> could easily access.
>
>
> If we want to embed the AST inside an "import" library file (which is  
> optional, could be done with a directory), wouldn't it be possible to  
> store the AST as a global / static variable? When dmd compiles myfun.d,  
> it generates the AST and inserts a global variable (eg  
> void*_ast_myfun=...) in the data segment of the library/object file  
> (that could be done with a mixin and be portable).
>
> just started a new thread for related ideas:  
> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/lmepufogzaxlbxwgubvl@forum.dlang.org
> thanks!
>

Theoretically yes, but it's extremely poor form for the compiler to be  
adding variables to programmer created structures especially when said  
variables are only ever going to be used by the compiler.

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Adam Wilson
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