Re: Compiling a template

On Friday, 7 December 2018 at 01:21:42 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: There is no trace of the template in the library or the object file. You can investigate the compiled symbols with e.g. the 'nm' tool on Linux systems: // deneme.d: void foo(T)(T t) { import std.stdio; writeln(t); } void

Compiling a template

If templates are a compile-time feature and instances of templates are generated by compiler at compile time, why is it possible to compile a template definition with dmd -lib or -c?