On 8/21/15 6:59 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote:
Am Thu, 20 Aug 2015 23:16:10 -0700
schrieb Walter Bright <[email protected]>:
On 8/20/2015 11:00 PM, Mike wrote:
Ideally it would be nice to only pull in those ModuleInfo instances
that are actually needed in the program, and by association, only
pull in those TypeInfo instances needed by the ModuleInfo. If no
ModuleInfo is used, and the associated TypeInfo is also not used,
then neither is pulled in.
I do plan to do a review of ModuleInfo with this in mind, but not
immediately.
Right now we use ModuleInfo to iterate all linked modules*. Keeping
modules but removing the ModuleInfo seems irreconcilable with that use case?
Of course completely removing a module could work.
*:
foreach(mod; ModuleInfo) is used in
* druntime to run unittests for all modules
* gdc druntime to find all modules with TLS variables for emulated TLS
support
* IIRC also somehow used in dynamic shared library loading/unloading?
It's used to call static ctor/dtors as well.
I think for modules that have none of these features, you could omit the
ModuleInfo.
-Steve
