On Friday, 18 May 2012 at 16:37:31 UTC, Sean Kelly wrote:
I'd say that Windows tends to do more for you, while Posix
provides lower-level APIs to accomplish the same thing. So
Posix offers more control and is typically more robust as a
result. There are a few exceptions however, like SEH has
proven to be far more capable than signals for certain classes
of error handling.
If you're targeting Windows then use Windows APIs, if Posix
then Posix. Windows does claim Posix support, but it's really
pretty terrible and Druntime doesn't have declarations for the
Posix Windows interface anyway.
Yeah...
The reason I asked was, I ended up calling a bunch of stuff
manually (e.g. rt_moduleCtor), and when I looked at Phobos, I
realized that's exactly what the Posix code already does. So I
was thinking if I used Phobos with the Posix flag, it might be
easier, but probably not...
