On Friday, 16 March 2018 at 18:15:02 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
On Thursday, 15 March 2018 at 10:48:45 UTC, Radu wrote:
You have to remember that the really big first client of
betterC(++) was DMD, porting DMD from C++ was a big
undertaking. Right now both DMD and LDC use a form of betterC,
so it is critical to have it finalized.
This is entirely wrong. DMD and LDC rely extern(C++), but this
has nothing to do with -betterC whatsoever.
Both compilers link and initialise the runtime as normal (and
then disable the GC at runtime).
— David
I stand corrected. I remembered something about druntime being
used but last time I checked front end code was filled with
strcpm and strlen, wrongly assumed that druntime was not used. Oh
well...
Still, probably D compilers will benefit from fixing mangling
bugs and allow more integration with C++ std, right?
