On Thursday, 29 November 2012 at 16:51:31 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 27 November 2012 21:42, Walter Bright
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 11/27/2012 10:37 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
As far as I can tell, it's all just metadata known at
compile-time
only. Nothing is written in the resultant binaries or object
files
produced.
That's right. However, you can use CTFE to read those UDAs and
generate
results that are embedded into the object files.
I also see that the information is available in the codegen
stage too
(toElem) - I suppose this may open a door to implement
compiler-specific UDAs:
["gcc.flatten"]
int foobar()
{
}
Or maybe not.... :o)
Cowabunga ! String as attribute again.
