On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 22:07:23 UTC, Andrea Fontana wrote:
> On Thursday, 10 March 2016 at 17:43:08 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist wrote:
>> I suppose the linker optimized the functions away since they are now in their own section. But it seems a hacky way to do this.
>
> AFAIK assert(0) and other falsey assert have a special meaning for compiler.
> So probably it's not so hacky but just a way to say that case can't happen.
>
> It is used also for:
>
>
> auto myfunc(int i)
> {
>
>    if (i == 0) return 10;
>    else if (i == 1) return 3;
>
>    assert(0);
> }
>
> And also with non final switch using
>
> switch(var)
> {
>    case ...
> ...
>    default: assert(0);
> }

I'm good with the assert(0), I'm not so happy with the linker not being able to create a binary without the -ffunction-sections option.

I think there needs to be a ctimport keyword or something. I should not have to deal with the imports only used during compile time. it is not a good thing.