Why does line count change so much from D2007 to D2010?

Question

Our app at work is a huge project with over 3000 units, weighing in about 3.5 million lines of code.

...or at least it was when we were compiling it under D2007. We

Answer 1

It looks like it is a bug. The correct line number is still reported under Project | Information. See Nick's answer to a similar question.

Answer 2

Doesn't D2010 support generics? I think some of the libs have been replaced by generics, which could account for additional lines that appear to be parsed if it counts the "virtual" lines it's using.

Answer 3

I wonder if the handling of linefeeds/carriage returns to determine line count in the compiler progress area is getting befuddled somehow as a result of the Unicode internals.

Have you tried compiling in D2009 and seeing if that exhibits the same strange behaviour?

Answer 4

Could it be because it is more aggressive with inlining?