If you look at the pull request description, the intention is to create a dummy
symbol to avoid a compiler error. Not sure the exact details, but the commit
message isn't enough to understand why it's there.
-Steve
>________________________________
>From: Jonathan M Davis <[email protected]>
>To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 6, 2011 3:23 AM
>Subject: Re: [phobos] Please stop merging pull requests
>
>On Tuesday, September 06, 2011 09:18:46 Don Clugston wrote:
>> On 6 September 2011 08:27, Walter Bright <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > unless they are fixing regressions in the beta.
>> >
>> > The last time I did a pull to add in the changes to std.parallelism, it
>> > pulled in a bunch of other stuff that broke peoples' code in the beta.
>> > We
>> > will never get the release done by doing things this way.
>> >
>> > The current beta breaks are:
>> >
>> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6606
>> >
>> > and Sönke Ludwig's problem with DLLs that probably resulted from a
>> > change in druntime.
>> >
>> > Please, no more merging other than fixing these two issues.
>>
>> This is another pull request which shouldn't have been folded in. But
>> it's probably harmless, don't know if we need to revert it or not.
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/commit/42495b8c76f1018132
>> 620a6128d40f170c782050 _______________________________________________
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>That commit seems utterly pointless. The function doesn't have any code in it.
>True, it won't break anything to leave it in, but it certainly seems to me
>that we should revert it.
>
>- Jonathan M Davis
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