• Russell Wilkins (5/5) Mar 24 2005 v0.119 windows
• Stewart Gordon (14/20) Apr 05 2005 Not sure about this. Do you mean the compiler or the linker? I can see...

Russell Wilkins <russell.wilkins grovestarsoftware.com> writes:

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

Stewart Gordon <smjg_1998 yahoo.com> writes:

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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