The non allocating D subset

[Mr. Anonymous]

On Sunday, 2 June 2013 at 14:32:56 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> So I tried to get moduleinfo looping working.... and found some 
> success. If you use it with libc, it works. On bare metal, it 
> works thanks to a linker script hack. It doesn't work on the 
> minimal linux setup. I wasted a lot of hours trying to do it, 
> but there seems to be some elf section magic going on that I 
> can't figure out how to easily hook in to.
>
> But even with that working, I couldn't get module ctors working 
> right.
>
> Meh time to move on. Here's the list of stuff I'm abandoning so 
> far
>
>  What doesn't work:
>     1) array concats. use the module memory.d instead (link 
> failure)
>     2) module constructors and destructors (silent failure, 
> they never run)
>     3) looping ModuleInfo without libc or bare metal (silent 
> failure, returns empty list)
>     4) TLS variables. always use __gshared (runtime crash)
>     5) threads.
>     6) unittests (silent failure, they never run)
>
> Maybe I can figure out module constructors later, but for now 
> I'm just going to abandon that.

How about a wiki page?