Re: -wi on default?

2012-05-08 Thread Pierre LeMoine
On Tuesday, 8 May 2012 at 04:32:14 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: ... I'm _very_ much against having normal warnings which are things which don't definitively need to be fixed, because otherwise you get into the situation where people ignore them, and the quality of the software suffers, because

Re: -wi on default?

2012-05-08 Thread Pierre LeMoine
On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 23:25:56 UTC, bearophile wrote: So what do you think about having "-wi" (and even -property too) on default in D (and have a compiler switch to disable warnings on request)? It sounds like a good idea to me, I'm all for it. The more warnings i get, the less probable i

Re: GSOC Linker project

2012-05-07 Thread Pierre LeMoine
On Monday, 7 May 2012 at 12:36:18 UTC, Roald Ribe wrote: If you are interested in getting results rather than reinventing the wheel, I would advice you to have a look at the openwatcom.org wlink, and the forked jwlink as a starting point. The linker is open source, written in C and has user do

Re: GSOC Linker project

2012-05-06 Thread Pierre LeMoine
On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 23:47:26 UTC, Trass3r wrote: Imho changing dmd to use COFF (incl. 64 support) instead of that crappy OMF would be more beneficial than yet another linker. I'd love to, but i don't think i can spend a whole summer doing that ;) If you do write a linker then make

Re: GSOC Linker project

2012-05-06 Thread Pierre LeMoine
On Thursday, 3 May 2012 at 22:53:03 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: Absolutely possible, though too late for this year's GSoC. If you're still interested in working on it for GSoC 2013 (if Google decides to do another GSoC (which they most likely will)), then be sure to submit a proposal! Too

GSOC Linker project

2012-05-03 Thread Pierre LeMoine
Hi! I'm interested in starting a project to make a linker besides optlink for dmd on windows. If possible it'd be cool to run it as a gsoc-project, but if that's not an option I'll try to get it admitted as a soc-project at my university. Anyway, the project would aim to be a replacement or