Re: 64 Support on Mac, FreeBSD

2011-05-08 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-05-07 07:24, Brad Roberts wrote: On 5/6/2011 9:58 PM, dsimcha wrote: Purely out of curiosity (as in I personally have no pressing need for it), what are the main roadblocks to DMD supporting 64-bit on Mac OS and FreeBSD? I understand that on Windows we'd need a new linker, etc, but

64 Support on Mac, FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread dsimcha
Purely out of curiosity (as in I personally have no pressing need for it), what are the main roadblocks to DMD supporting 64-bit on Mac OS and FreeBSD? I understand that on Windows we'd need a new linker, etc, but IIUC FreeBSD and Mac OS use GCC like Linux does.

Re: 64 Support on Mac, FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread Brad Roberts
On 5/6/2011 9:58 PM, dsimcha wrote: Purely out of curiosity (as in I personally have no pressing need for it), what are the main roadblocks to DMD supporting 64-bit on Mac OS and FreeBSD? I understand that on Windows we'd need a new linker, etc, but IIUC FreeBSD and Mac OS use GCC like

Re: 64 Support on Mac, FreeBSD

2011-05-06 Thread Walter Bright
On 5/6/2011 9:58 PM, dsimcha wrote: Purely out of curiosity (as in I personally have no pressing need for it), what are the main roadblocks to DMD supporting 64-bit on Mac OS and FreeBSD? I understand that on Windows we'd need a new linker, etc, but IIUC FreeBSD and Mac OS use GCC like Linux