bearophile wrote:
Bill Baxter:
That's a good point. I never think of stuff like that because I
use dsss most of the time. You want per-file flags? Ha! Dsss
laughs at you. Unfortunately. :-(
I usually compile programs with bud, that applies the same thing to
all modules. I presume as dsss. As soon as Walter realizes that's a
quite natural way to use D (that is, to let something (possibly the
compiler) find the modules it needs by itself. LDC may eventually
grow this essential feature), he may think about ways to influence
the compiler from the code itself, creating compiler directives that
can be embedded in the code (as in Pascal). I am not sure this is the
best good solution, maybe there are better solutions, like improving
those tools (or the compiler) to allow a finer specification of the
compilation flags.
It's a careful decision about whether to embed a switch in the source
code or not. One can really make a mess making the wrong choice. For
profiling, though, it clearly should not go in the source code.
