Am 14.02.2014 16:32, schrieb Adam D. Ruppe:
On Friday, 14 February 2014 at 09:09:42 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
But that would mean that you have to pull the implementation of casts
and other features that rely on TypeInfo right now into the library too.
They already are: druntime/src/rt/cast_.d I wouldn't change that, I'm
more thinking about changing rt/typeinfo/*.d from being hand-written to
auto generated by a template and moving the object size and layout from
the compiler (see verifyStructSize in dmd) to the druntime code too.
No phobos here, that would definitely be a bad idea.
making at lot harder to use D without phobos unless you want to
rewrite the entire TypeInfo and all features depending on it.
Right now, if you try to use D without druntime, it will complain about
missing typeinfos and force you to create the classes with a particular
size. Much of it can be auto generated by templates now (which gives a
lot of cool flexibility btw), but you are still locked into the
compiler's fairly strict layout. I want to open up some flexibility.
Ok, I misunderstood you then. Moving TypeInfo generation to druntime
would actually be a good idea. Ocasionally I wanted to extend TypeInfo
for various use cases.
I said using D without phobos, I never said using D without druntime.
Thats a difference.
