On Sat, 11 Jan 2014 05:04:03 -0800, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@gdcproject.org>
wrote:
On 11 January 2014 00:24, Manu <turkey...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 11 January 2014 06:59, Iain Buclaw <ibuc...@gdcproject.org> wrote:
On 10 January 2014 20:54, John Colvin <john.loughran.col...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
>>
>> This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find any
thread
>> about this. As things has progressed I wonder if Digital Mars DMD
>> should
>> move over to use LLVM instead of its own code generation and
compiler
>> framework.
>>
>> As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language has,
DMD
>> will
>> never support anything beyond x86 as there are no resources for
this.
>> Also,
>> why spend time on recreating the the code generation which has
already
>> been
>> done with LLVM? This enables this community to focus on the language
>> which
>> is the most important part as well as supporting more and future
>> processor
>> targets.
>
>
> This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd with
llvm
> backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc framework.
Indeed. But naturally I'd suggest they move to GCC. ;-)
Is it possible that GDC will ever produce binaries that will link
against
the microsoft libs without problems?
In my experience, GDC produces intrinsic calls to its own runtime all
over
the place, and it's not compatible with the microsoft runtime. I also
recall
library format mismatch, but that was a long time ago, and I think we
discussed it again since deciding that GDC is now using the same format
as
VisualC in windows...?
Can GDC write PDB debuginfo into the objects (CV8 I think it is)?
As I understand, neither GCC nor LLVM are capable of producing PDB.
Has Microsoft even release any documentation or code necessary to
produce files in their PDB format?
This is no longer true of LLVM, they've got Windows specific builds that
output PDB and link with COFF natively. See: http://llvm.org/builds/
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Adam Wilson
IRC: LightBender
Aurora Project Coordinator
