On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:25:04 -0400, Jonathan M Davis
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Thursday, July 22, 2010 06:53:30 BCS wrote:
Hello Don,
> Ellery Newcomer wrote:
>> On 07/21/2010 09:09 PM, strtr wrote:
>>> Could somebody please explain this error to me.
>>
>> evidently ctfe can't eat
>>
>> foreach(i, dchar d; s){
>> }
>> Bleach. Make sure it's in bugzilla.
>
> CTFE currently doesn't work on *any* functions which are implemented
> in druntime, because it doesn't have access to their source code.
Why don't they have access?
All you have for druntime are .di files (so basically header files
rather than
full-on source files) and the library file with the compiled source, so
you don't
have the source. Now, as to _why_ that's all you have, I don't know (the
.d files
come with phobos). But you need the .d files for the full source, and
without
them, you won't be able to use CTFE with the functions in them.
Well, it's somewhat different than that. For something like foreach(i,
dchar d; s), the compiler recognizes this as a special runtime function
and replaces it with a call to the special function that handles that. I
don't think the code for running it is any .di file in druntime.
-Steve
