On 6/20/17 7:23 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
On 2017-06-20 01:29, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
I may have misspoke. I mean they didn't depend on the library itself.
I think they do depend on the C wrappers.
So for instance, they didn't use FILE *, but instead used
read/write/recv/send.
They did use the Posix and Windows API functions. I can see some imports
for libc and Posix functions spread out here and there [1], but I'm not
too familiar with are system calls and which are not. It's certainly no
way near how much is used in Phobos today.
I remember they specifically did not want to depend on anything in the C
library.
In windows, they definitely did not depend on C at all, and did not link
with msvcrt or any other C runtime. The calls were all to the ntdll.dll.
Really this is the way it *should* be in Posix as well, but they just
stuff everything into libc.
As it stands, Phobos uses C runtime features extensively, and it would
be hard to get rid of the calls.
-Steve
