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.
LLVM is also the finalizer for HSAIL, AMD is using it for their
linux port of C++AMP. But I would assume that ldc probably
wouldn't have any issues generating HSA compatible code with
minor modifications as is(as the LLVM backend will support it).
I have no idea if GCC will support HSA or not however Microsoft
is fully supporting it, as is ARM. So I wouldn't think that GCC
would be to far behind on that one.
