https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23973
Issue ID: 23973
Summary: static constructors should have to be nothrow
Product: D
Version: D2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: critical
Priority: P1
Component: dmd
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Since initialisation order is undefined, throwing in a static constructor can
end up not having a stack trace (the runtime isn't initialised yet), or
probably worse (the GC insn't initialised yet). Also, there's nothing a user
can actually do to recover since it happens before their program even
technically begins. Even logging the exception is a bad idea because, again,
initialisation (or the lack thereof).
I've been bitten by this and have made all my static constructors nothrow ever
since, and I don't think there's any utility in ones that do.
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