On Wednesday, 12 February 2014 at 15:40:54 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
This would certainly be a useful feature to have when porting, and Walter clearly uses it himself. Assuming this can be done with minimal work, I'd say make it a DMD thing rather than a D thing in general. Like -profile. And add a switch to enable it in the front-end if possible. Then DMD (and potentially the other compilers) will have the feature in case anyone finds it useful and we can move on. Call it -minimal.
Good compiler flag name choice.
I have a feeling we've already spent more time talking about this than Walter would have spent implementing it anyway, so it's already taking time away from other things. Let's just give it a nod and move on.
By 'nod' you mean Bugzilla entry, right? The flag would have to be documented. While "better C" is descriptive, it's not very helpful.
I like the idea a lot. If it's truly low hanging fruit, then yeah it should be done, but I get the concerns that others have about D and unfinished business. Tough decision!
