Any takers for http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9673?

[Timon Gehr]

On 03/11/2013 07:51 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>
>
> On 11.03.2013 01:15, Timon Gehr wrote:
>> On 03/11/2013 12:49 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> On 3/10/13 4:41 PM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>>> My
>>>> point is that import dependencies in D are more viral than C++ headers
>>>> because you cannot even remove them in di-files (this would break
>>>> initialization order).
>>>
>>> This is new. Could you please elaborate?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Andrie
>>>
>>
>> It is not true. The initialization order is determined at run time.
>
> An import is listed in the module info struct as a dependency, if it has
> static constructors (or destructors) or if it imports modules that have
> static constructors.
> If a di-file misses an import, it might not end up
> in the imported modules list of an importing module, so the correct
> order cannot be determined at runtime.
> ( Search the dmd source for "needmoduleinfo", especially
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/toobj.c#L150
> and
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/import.c#L344
> )
>
> Also, you might run into trouble when removing static
> constructors/destructors from the di-file because of this.
>

I see, thanks! IMO this is ridiculous. I'd argue it is an implementation 
bug and should be fixed.