Unused druntime code: Barrier, ReadWriteMutex, Condition
Denis Feklushkin
feklushkin.denis at gmail.com
Sun Jun 14 21:36:14 UTC 2026
While working on FreeRTOS support several years ago I discovered
that druntime's classes Barrier, ReadWriteMutex and Condition
weren't used at druntime or by compiler (CI with mentioned
classes disabled https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/23265)
In fact, Barrier and ReadWriteMutex aren't used at all in any std
D libraries or by compiler and Condition is used only in Phobos.
They all rely on Condition. The problem with it is that Condition
uses primitive provided by the OS (pthread_condattr if Posix).
However, not all operating systems provide this primitive
(FreeRTOS for example) and this causes a problem out of nowhere.
Since this code is not necessary for Dlang's core functionality,
I propose moving all mentioned classes to Phobos with appropriate
warning messages
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