Help understanding no-runtime error?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Wed Nov 13 20:38:09 UTC 2024


On 11/13/2024 12:01 AM, Manu wrote:
> I really wish there was an official document which maintained a list of all the 
> expressions that generate runtime calls inside the compiler... there's a hell of 
> a lot of them!
> If you sift through druntime, the fact that this code is such a mess is a really 
> good indicator of some core language deficits. All these things handle SO MANY 
> CASES.

The idea was to use the language itself to implement parts of the language, to 
keep the compiler simple.

Whether this has succeeded or not is debatable.

> A lot of it will resolve with move semantics and the proper emplace expression 
> that Walter's working... the rest of it, I dunno.

My progress on placement new has already yielded reductions in template bloat.


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