Am 11.02.2012 16:32, schrieb Daniel Murphy:
This is actually probably not that difficult to do.
A C backend for dmd would be quite difficult to make - but if you strip out
most of the complex features that make it to code generation (exceptions,
garbage collected memory, tls, classes, array ops, threading, floating
point, typeinfo, destructors, postblits etc) then the actual code generated
doesn't need to be that complex.
If you remove all of that then how good would D- be in regard with
existing languages being used for the same tasks?
For example, MikroEletronica sells C, Basic and Pascal compilers that
target everything from a small PIC up to big ARMs.
http://www.mikroe.com/eng/products/view/754/mikropascal-pro-for-arm/
I can also get Ada for embedded systems programming, which was actually
one of Ada's design goals,
http://www.adacore.com/home/products/gnatpro/development_solutions/embedded/?gclid=CJ-7yNeImK4CFUGIDgodXT4CJQ
So what does D- bring to the table, besides fragmenting the community?
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Paulo
