On 3/8/16 1:38 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
On 3/7/16 1:33 PM, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 08:49:36 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
On Monday, 7 March 2016 at 01:47:53 UTC, Yuxuan Shui wrote:
On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 23:27:45 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
It is just a mistake that TypeInfo isn't immutable, in my opinion.
...though changing it would be a breaking change, I think it would
make sense to do it.
Is there really anything relies on TypeInfo being mutable?
LDC produces a crashing program when you change TypeInfo.name:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1337
This is because LDC put the TypeInfo struct in .rodata! Which is great.
Further prove the point that no one is modifying TypeInfo.
Great evidence. Guess we should make everything immutable then. -- Andrei
The fun part is going to be all the ripple effect changes required to api's to pass them around as
const. Those result in mangling changes and thus is a reasonably massive amount of low level ABI churn.
