On Thursday, 31 January 2013 at 12:10:29 UTC, Jacob Carlborg
wrote:
On 2013-01-31 11:11, Dicebot wrote:
Ugh, how can you split module into two source/object files?
Naive
approach will result in linker error due to multiple
definition of
ModuleInfo. I did not know it was possible, would have been
really cool
to have.
I'm not 100% sure if it's possible, but it's theoretically
possible.
How _exactly_ is it even theoretically possible in D? Sciolism
rarely helps when discussing technical issues.
The hard part regarding separate compilation in D is to determine
the object file(s) a template instance is emitted to, and the
visibility of the symbol. But whether a private symbol is
»leaked« into the public API of a module or not can always be
determined by just examining the module in question. So, it
should be doable, even though the current DMD implementation has
bugs in this regard.
David
