Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-16 Thread Nick Sabalausky
"Alex Rønne Petersen" wrote in message news:jcdep3$2gs3$1...@digitalmars.com... > > being on a 32-bit OS from 2001 https://www.semitwist.com/articles/article/view/why-use-a-10-year-old-os-!

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-15 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/15/2011 4:40 AM, Michel Fortin wrote: It's one thing to ask developers to use 64-bit machines for development, it's another to say to developers they can't target 32-bit users if they choose to use DMD. Even Apple ships everything with dual architecture binaries these days, and some of Appl

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-15 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 15-12-2011 18:04, Somedude wrote: Le 14/12/2011 11:07, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit : No point maintaining something that won't be used. I would also imagine that it can't be long before Windows stops supporting 32-bit. - Alex You imagine wrong. A large percentage of Windows users are stil

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-15 Thread Somedude
Le 14/12/2011 11:07, Alex Rønne Petersen a écrit : > > No point maintaining something that won't be used. I would also imagine > that it can't be long before Windows stops supporting 32-bit. > > - Alex You imagine wrong. A large percentage of Windows users are still on Win XP 32 bits (like me).

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-15 Thread Michel Fortin
On 2011-12-14 18:28:07 +, Walter Bright said: On 12/14/2011 3:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-12-14 11:54, Walter Bright wrote: It makes me wonder if we need to support 32 bit generation on OSX at all. Yeah, I wonder that too. But does it hurt/cause problems to do? I mean, it's alre

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-15 Thread Michel Fortin
On 2011-12-15 07:22:47 +, Jacob Carlborg said: On 2011-12-14 19:28, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 3:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-12-14 11:54, Walter Bright wrote: It makes me wonder if we need to support 32 bit generation on OSX at all. Yeah, I wonder that too. But does it

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-14 19:28, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 3:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-12-14 11:54, Walter Bright wrote: It makes me wonder if we need to support 32 bit generation on OSX at all. Yeah, I wonder that too. But does it hurt/cause problems to do? I mean, it's already suppor

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Kai Meyer
On 12/14/2011 09:51 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: On 14-12-2011 14:11, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 11:07:22 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: No point maintaining something that won't be used. I would also imagine that it can't be long before Windows stops support

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 3:09 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2011-12-14 11:54, Walter Bright wrote: It makes me wonder if we need to support 32 bit generation on OSX at all. Yeah, I wonder that too. But does it hurt/cause problems to do? I mean, it's already supported. There's the ongoing effort to suppor

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 8:51 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: On 14-12-2011 14:11, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 11:07:22 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: No point maintaining something that won't be used. I would also imagine that it can't be long before Windows stops supporti

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 14-12-2011 14:11, Vladimir Panteleev wrote: On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 11:07:22 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: No point maintaining something that won't be used. I would also imagine that it can't be long before Windows stops supporting 32-bit. Windows still supports 16-bit apps (ev

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-14 14:39, Michel Fortin wrote: Also, I think it'd make sense that druntime and phobos continue to support 32-bit OS X in case someone wants to target iOS one day, which is basically 32-bit OS X on ARM. Never thought of that, it's a good point. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Michel Fortin
On 2011-12-14 10:54:55 +, Walter Bright said: On 12/14/2011 2:37 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Yeah, it's the only reason this matters on Mac OS X. If it was a "regular" application I probably never would have noticed. I find I don't notice. (I think that's good!) Unless I'm debugging an is

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
On Wednesday, 14 December 2011 at 11:07:22 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote: No point maintaining something that won't be used. I would also imagine that it can't be long before Windows stops supporting 32-bit. Windows still supports 16-bit apps (even 64-bit versions do, for some rare exception

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-14 11:54, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 2:37 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Yeah, it's the only reason this matters on Mac OS X. If it was a "regular" application I probably never would have noticed. I find I don't notice. (I think that's good!) Unless I'm debugging an issue specifi

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Alex Rønne Petersen
On 14-12-2011 11:54, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 2:37 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Yeah, it's the only reason this matters on Mac OS X. If it was a "regular" application I probably never would have noticed. I find I don't notice. (I think that's good!) Unless I'm debugging an issue specifi

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 2:37 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Yeah, it's the only reason this matters on Mac OS X. If it was a "regular" application I probably never would have noticed. I find I don't notice. (I think that's good!) Unless I'm debugging an issue specific to 32 or 64 bits. It makes me wonder i

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-14 11:13, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 2:03 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Yeah, I see no point with the 32bit binaries either. But the 64bit binaries target 64bit by default, that's how I noticed it, my code wasn't completely 64bit compatible. The default is set to match gcc's def

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 2:03 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: Yeah, I see no point with the 32bit binaries either. But the 64bit binaries target 64bit by default, that's how I noticed it, my code wasn't completely 64bit compatible. The default is set to match gcc's default.

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2011-12-14 10:39, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/14/2011 1:35 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I just downloaded both 1.072 and 2.057. I see that 2.057 is compiled as a 64bit binary and 1.072 as a 32bit binary. Is there a reason for this difference? They should have both been 64 bit. Probably somethin

Re: DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Walter Bright
On 12/14/2011 1:35 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: I just downloaded both 1.072 and 2.057. I see that 2.057 is compiled as a 64bit binary and 1.072 as a 32bit binary. Is there a reason for this difference? They should have both been 64 bit. Probably something wrong with my build script. My intent i

DMD 1.072 and DMD 2.057 64bit on Mac OS X

2011-12-14 Thread Jacob Carlborg
I just downloaded both 1.072 and 2.057. I see that 2.057 is compiled as a 64bit binary and 1.072 as a 32bit binary. Is there a reason for this difference? -- /Jacob Carlborg