On 2012-05-09 19:05, Adam Wilson wrote:
This pull fixes this problem and a bunch of others: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/928. However, it currently fails to build on Linux and fails the unittests on Windows thanks to a problem with the dur template function in std.datetime. The solution used by this pull is to include the function body of the auto-function as that was needed to allow Phobos to build correctly using the DRT DI files. This is the only workable solution as DMD does not know the type of an auto-function when DI files are generated. No semantic analysis has been performed and since semantic analysis could change the layout of a module you wouldn't want it to be performed.
The correct way to solve this in the long run is to have the compiler replace "auto" with the inferred type. If the whole semantic analysis phase cannot be run the we need to have some kind of limited semantic analysis phase or some other phase to infer the types.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
