> > > But having said that, my thinking is probably biased by the fact that I'm > coming from the HDTrans experience. It's very possible that everything > looks like a nail as a result. > > > shap > > - When C++ is your hammer, everything looks like your thumb. > > Had a bout of nostalgia and almost forgot how painful C/C++ was , after not using it for a year was keen to use it, its not so much the language ( I havent entirely blacked out all those memories ) but the tool chain / make and especially includes /headers .. Made really good progress yesterday fixed up the C# compiler got it building on windows and Mono , updated the scanner and parser to latest version and fixed some bugs this caused and it was outputing IR (LLVM 2.5 IR) .. Then i had to link it with a basic C++ runtime lib and getting 1 file and 10 headers compiling was a royal pain got it finally working with LLVM 3.4 but obviously that doesnt work well when the compiler is putting out 2.5 .
Almost tempted to rewrite these in C# and add a few extentions like fixed first and avoid stdlib and call the kernel direct ( that would be a good system level language test) but this is just fanciful thinking , it will be quicker to use stdlib and I need optomized memcpy etc and will stick to the schedule . So get the compiler to put out LLVM 3.4 IR and then get the 100 tests working with a new test runner and add 400 or so tests from mono then can do some real work . Ben
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