On Jan 25, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: > On Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at 19:58:40 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote: >> I don't think it makes sense in Druntime. It isn't required for the compiler >> to work that I know of. > > Underlying implementation of language features trickles down to using either > the DMC runtime or Windows APIs. Druntime defines the Windows APIs locally > where needed, which is a hack. > > Example: > > https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/blob/master/src/rt/dmain2.d#L31
This was done to reduce coupling between modules and to reduce the runtime footprint in executables. It's not terribly maintenance-friendly however, and so Druntime is slowly transition to simply importing the appropriate module. A number of these remain mostly because it ain't broke as-is.
