Re: Release D 2.078.0

[Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 4 January 2018 at 17:40:55 UTC, David Nadlinger 
wrote:

This is slightly inaccurate. Regular stack cleanup doesn't 
involve the runtime at all; druntime only comes into play for 
exception handling. Since destructors also need to be run when 
the scope is left by an exception, they are implemented via 
`try {} finally {}` internally. The EH part of these depends on 
druntime, but not the regular path.



This is somewhat confusingly worded as well. It's actually 
mostly the other way around – druntime depends on ModuleInfo to 
be emitted, crucially for static constructor, destructors and 
unit tests to be run. At least without shared libraries in the 
picture, it would be fairly easy to manually look up the set of 
ModuleInfos in a druntime-less D program.

 — David

Thanks, David!