On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 07:56:02 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
On 18 Oct 2015 9:45 am, "Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d"
< digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
On Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 07:37:55 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
Essentially, the reason D has not been ported to X has
nothing to do
with lack of compiler support. A compiler can always be built
to target X, and if that wasn't enough, there are many ready
built packages available that target X.
It is now your job as porters to fix up druntime to allow a
library to
be built by these compilers.
That's not very useful. LDC and GDC still include Phobos and
Druntime.
It is infinitely more useful than having no compiler at all to
test porting changes.
That's not what I meant. Aside from the compiler, LDC and GDC
include the runtime, standard library, probably documentation
etc. They come as a complete package.
You're essentially saying that once LDC gets Android/iOS
support, GDC
will automatically get it as well with no effort required from
you?
In it's runtime? Correct - assuming no one invents any new
predefined version conditions in the process. :-)
No, not just the runtime. Surely the runtime contains some
compiler/linker/toolchain-specific things... intrinsics, linker
scripts, section names, predefined versions, assembler syntax...
some of these might be platform/architecture-independent but
surely not all?
