https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22367

--- Comment #16 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> ---
Better than turning on/off the ModuleInfo generation, it is better to do or not do the triggers that cause the ModuleInfo to be generated.

For example, if a static constructor is written, and the ModuleInfo is suppressed, the program will link but the static constructor will never be run, causing the resulting program to not behave as expected.

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Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> changed:

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--- Comment #17 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> ---
I looked further into this.

Essentially, betterC code cannot generate ModuleInfo, because ModuleInfo also generates a call to _d_so_registry in druntime.

Having a `static this` in a betterC module, or a betterC module importing a module with a `static this`, requires a ModuleInfo to guarantee the semantics. Simply turning off ModuleInfo generation will get the program to link, but will leave the static this code un-run, i.e. the code will not work.

Instead, betterC code must use pragma(crt_constructor) functions instead to perform static initializations. These functions will be called by the C runtime startup code.

To reply on pragma(crt_constructor) means fixing the reported problems with them, and making sure they are correctly defined. To that end is:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/14669

which is to be followed by going through druntime to replace `static this` with `pragma(crt_constructor)` wherever possible, such as with:

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/14671

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--- Comment #18 from dlangBugzillaToGithub <robert.schadek@posteo.de> ---
THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/19990

DO NOT COMMENT HERE ANYMORE, NOBODY WILL SEE IT, THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB

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