On 2014-06-27 5:53 AM, safety0ff wrote:
Perhaps the bounty won't stimulate anybody who doesn't have other motivations to improve the situation, but more information about the scope of the issue would be helpful to both backers and potential claimants.
From what I've seen writing an ASN.1 compiler with D is, sometimes you just don't know if some part of the tree structure generated from the ctfe is referenced anywhere else (which is somewhat possible to track with reference counts). The garbage collector solves a potential 500+ hours of work making tree structures referentially self-aware.
My guess is that the compiler doesn't know if parts of the CTFE function will be used at runtime, no matter how obvious it is that it won't, there's just no information kept lying around about it and it gets confused with the tree structures used and sent to the backend for the runtime routines.
