<format>: Avoid dependency on <variant> #1826
Description
Describe the bug
The <format> header currently includes <varaint> which is a big dependency. However, std::variant itself is not used in the implementation, only std::monostate which is a trivial struct. Is it possible to move std::monostate to a common header to be used from <format> and <variant> to break the unnecessary dependency and potentially reduce compile times?
Command-line test case
C:\Temp>type test.cc
#include <format>
int main() {
auto v = std::variant<int>();
}
C:\Temp>cl /I STL/stl/inc /std:c++latest test.cc
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test.cc
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 14.29.29917.0
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/out:test.exe
test.obj
Expected behavior
The test shouldn't compile because <format> shoudn't provide std::variant.
STL version