On Friday, 9 January 2015 at 20:24:55 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
Great. This helps me understand what is the main impediment at
the moment. With that in mind I think we can formulate our GSOC
plan better.
As far as I can tell it can focus on 2 paths:
a) Get embedded-savy student to work on MCU support and stuff
while delegating most compiler tweaks to mentor(s) and core
team.
b) Get a student interested in compilers to deliver on getting
robust cross-compiler with minimal run-time. Getting actual
boards to work is then delegated to mentors.
I am in favor of a).
I've found that I can only get so far with a), unless you are
willing to be rather tolerant with what D currently offers. It
could be enough for a summer project, though, and I suppose it
could help highlight some of D's current shortcomings in this
domain. Eventually, though, a) will need b), and I think b)
cannot be done properly without changes in the compiler.
Mike
