On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 16:47:14 -0400, BCS <n...@anon.com> wrote:
Hello Robert,
On Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:55:48 -0400, BCS <n...@anon.com> wrote:
Hello Leandro,
Nick Sabalausky, el 21 de junio a las 13:40 me escribiste:
"Eldar Insafutdinov" <e.insafutdi...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:hvo49k$1uk...@digitalmars.com...
In the end, Windows is the most popular
OS despite our personal preferences, and it's worth spending some
time for
it.
I wish someone could convince LLVM of that...
Maybe it should be the other way around. Someone who cares about
Windows should give some love to LLVM =)
How hard are the problems? I have zero experience in LLVM and very
little in compiler work but if the problems could be attacked without
to much ramp-up I'd be interested in looking into them.
The main issue (as I understand it) is adding windows style structured
exception handling to LLVM.
After a little digging it seems that LLVM legally CAN'T add SEH as MS
has it under patent. I'm still digging to figure out how it could be
patented without making SEH an irrelevant technology.
The patent seems to be Borlands's:
USPTO patent #5,628,016 Patent held by Borland on compiler support for SEH.
From a Wine wiki page: http://wiki.winehq.org/CompilerExceptionSupport
It does seem to expire on June 15, 2014, though and I assume DigitalMars
has a license, so a LLVM fork is not unreasonable.
