v0.119 windows

I quite by accident found you can compile a completely empty source file and get  both an obj and an exe (which does nothing but runs without error). I think the compiler should error if no code has been generated.

Russell

Russell Wilkins wrote:
> v0.119 windows
> 
> I quite by accident found you can compile a completely empty source file and get  both an obj and an exe (which does nothing but runs without error).

Congratulations, you've written the shortest ever D quine!

> I think the compiler should error if no code has been generated.

Not sure about this.  Do you mean the compiler or the linker?  I can see a few legit reasons for a module having no code generated:

- it's a module entirely of import statements, function prototypes, struct definitions, type aliases, symbolic constants, whatever else....
- it's a module that's only needed for certain platforms/editions/whatever, and so all the code may be versioned out (if that follows).

OTOH, the linker ought to error, since there is no main function.

Stewart.

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