DIP 45 - approval discussion

[Walter Bright]

On 11/15/2013 7:34 AM, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> Am 15/11/2013 08:32, schrieb Walter Bright:
>> It's not that bad. Phobos can be built by specifying all the files on
>> the command line.
>>
>> Also, at least on Windows, you can call functions in a DLL without
>> saying dllimport on them and suffering a layer of indirection. The magic
>> happens in the import library, which provides the relevant thunk. It's
>> about 15 years since I worked on this stuff, so I might be a bit fuzzy
>> on the details.
>
> I know that. And we are using that fact in DIP 45. For data symbols we did
> suggest a similar behaviour that has to be implemented by us first. And yes we
> need data symbols, because of all the implicit data symbols the D programming
> language generates. TypeInfos, vtables etc.
>
> I suggest that you read all the links I gave for further reading in DIP 45 and
> DIP 45 again, because you are pretty close to what we suggested in DIP 45
> without actually realizing it.

I'm very much against the suggested rewriting of obj files to strip the export 
records :-)