On Thursday, 29 January 2015 at 08:47:18 UTC, Mike wrote:
It just seems to return a void*. But, searching the source
code, it doesn't seem to be set by anything anywhere.
It can actually return anything: RTInfo is a template that is
automatically instantiated for each user-defined struct or class
in a program.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/f0c1e13d8bd547eed517b1ae17f085966bb165c1/src/object.di#L682
It isn't actually doing anything yet in the lib, but it could if
you wanted to modify druntime. IT can do anything - custom, user
extensions to TypeInfo, building trees of types, or making maps
of things for the GC (which is why it is there, just nobody has
actually used it yet). It is one of the cool hidden gems there
that is unutilized so far.
