On Friday, 7 December 2018 at 01:21:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
There is no trace of the template in the library or the object
file. You can investigate the compiled symbols with e.g. the
'nm' tool on Linux systems:
// deneme.d:
void foo(T)(T t) {
import std.stdio;
writeln(t);
}
void main() {
// foo(42);
}
$ dmd deneme.d -lib
$ nm deneme.a | grep foo
No trace of foo... Now uncomment the line in main and repeat:
$ dmd deneme.d -lib
$ nm deneme.a | grep foo
U _D6deneme__T3fooTiZQhFNfiZv
0000000000000000 W _D6deneme__T3fooTiZQhFNfiZv
"W" indicates a definition.
I see, what confused me was that if I put main() in a different
file and
$ dmd main.d deneme.a
the program compiled properly. Now I realize that in this case
deneme.a file was ignored and the source file was used instead. I
expected an error. Thank you for your answers.
