On Tuesday, 20 October 2020 at 16:58:12 UTC, Severin Teona wrote:
Hi guys.
I have a curiosity, regarding [1] - I had encountered some
"undefined reference" errors when trying to link the druntime
(compiled for an embedded architecture) without some
implementation of the POSIX thread calls (and other stuff too).
My curiosity is what would change if I removed from the
druntime everything that has to do with mutexes or threads.
Would it be possible for the druntime to run and work properly
on a microcontroller - where those concepts are not necessary?
Could I just remove everything about synchronisation from the
druntime, and classes or Garbage Collector to still work
properly?
[1]:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/erwfgtigvcciohllv...@forum.dlang.org
An alternative would be to link to a custom library that
implements the pthreads ABI, but stubs everything out in a way
that makes sense on a single-threaded microcontroller.
I wanted to do that once for another project. I never got it to
work for unrelated reasons, so I can't say how well the D runtime
handles it, sorry. It's probably an easier approach than
maintaining your own fork of the runtime, though.
