On Sunday, 3 December 2017 at 23:34:13 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
If -betterC motivates people to come up with better solutions, I'm all for it.
A better solution would be to do what Iain said:
Try compiling a simple "hello world" with an empty object.d file. Then inspect what the compiler does. Does it error and exit, or does it ICE? What can be done to prevent that from happening?
When you reach the point that there's no way but to declare a symbol or function, add that to object.d and then move onto the next error or ICE. Repeat until you can compile and link your program.
Next, try something a little more complex, such as define a struct and use it. Then again address all problems that you encounter with that.
It would be great for the compiler devs to run through this exercise themselves and make changes to the compiler/runtime interface to remove the irrelevant requirements the compiler is imposing.
Mike
