On Thursday, 30 October 2014 at 14:03:23 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
At work, I have to target SPARC/Solaris. I'm writing code to
interface with an internal network protocol, so my current
choices are C and (old) C++ (remember Sun Studio? I wish I
didn't have to). Having looked, it seems like there's some
manner of support for SPARC in the runtime, but restricted to
Linux and FreeBSD? Is that correct?
Someone may have been thorough when adding arches to certain
files, but that in no way implies much actual support. The gdc
section of the download page claims sparc support, so you could
look at what they've done.
In which case, what would an enterprising individual have to
actually do (read: fix or implement) to use D in that
environment? (If it comes down to it, it may be worth my while
to add it myself.)
You may be able to combine the existing Solaris support and the
sparc backend of llvm or gcc and get pretty far. A lot of the
work should just be translating headers needed for the
solaris/sparc sections in druntime. You could look at the
linux/powerpc work Kai did with ldc for an idea of the changes
necessary for a new arch.
This echoes a thread Nordlöw started about six months ago, but
my constraints aren't as rigid: DMD would be fine for me. I
just pine for non-crap language.
As kagamin said, dmd's backend is i386/x86_64 only, so you have
to use ldc or gdc.
