• John Colvin (13/13) Apr 21 2013 test.d:
• John Colvin (3/16) Apr 21 2013 Just to avoid any confusion for non-linux guys:
• Andrej Mitrovic (3/5) Apr 21 2013 Aliases are a purely compile-time feature. Wherever they're used it's
• Peter Alexander (3/5) Apr 21 2013 What would you expect it to look like in the object file? A
• John Colvin (5/10) Apr 21 2013 Something like that, yes.

"John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

test.d:

extern (C):
void foo(){}
alias foo bar;

$dmd -c test.d

$nm test.o
0000000000000000 t
0000000000000000 D _D11test12__ModuleInfoZ
                  w _d_dso_registry
                  U _Dmodule_ref
0000000000000000 T foo


Surely the aliased symbol should appear in the object file, or am 
I missing something?

"John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 18:54:27 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
 test.d:

 extern (C):
 void foo(){}
 alias foo bar;

 $dmd -c test.d

 $nm test.o
 0000000000000000 t
 0000000000000000 D _D11test12__ModuleInfoZ
                  w _d_dso_registry
                  U _Dmodule_ref
 0000000000000000 T foo


 Surely the aliased symbol should appear in the object file, or 
 am I missing something?

Just to avoid any confusion for non-linux guys:

nm is a linux utility for listing the symbols in an object file.

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On 4/21/13, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> wrote:
 Surely the aliased symbol should appear in the object file, or am
 I missing something?

Aliases are a purely compile-time feature. Wherever they're used it's
as if the compiler rewrote the alias with the aliased symbol.

"Peter Alexander" <peter.alexander.au gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 18:54:27 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
 Surely the aliased symbol should appear in the object file, or 
 am I missing something?

What would you expect it to look like in the object file? A 
duplicate of the foo function?

"John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 19:22:27 UTC, Peter Alexander wrote:
 On Sunday, 21 April 2013 at 18:54:27 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
 Surely the aliased symbol should appear in the object file, or 
 am I missing something?

 What would you expect it to look like in the object file? A 
 duplicate of the foo function?

Something like that, yes.

I have a templated function and need particular instantiations of 
it in a library. If aliases cannot be used for this, I suppose 
the most reasonable option is to write wrapper functions.