On Sunday, 2 October 2016 at 21:05:25 UTC, A D dev wrote:
One last point:
If that was always the behavior (in all versions from 2010 - or
earlier), i.e. -o- generates neither .OBJ nor .EXE, then what
is the purpose of the option? does it act as just a syntax
check?
Purpose is to skip code generation and only do syntax/semantic
validation. Very helpful when testing compiler because:
a) it takes less time speeding up overall test suite
b) doesn't require runtime static library to succeed, thus
simplifying setup
