Does DMD build as a 32bit binary under linux?

2010-09-06 Thread BCS
I assuem that a 64bit DMD building 64bit binaries is one of the objective right now. How about a 64bit->32bit? (Or for that matter, 32bit->64bit.) -- ... <

Re: Does DMD build as a 32bit binary under linux?

2010-09-06 Thread Walter Bright
BCS wrote: I assuem that a 64bit DMD building 64bit binaries is one of the objective right now. How about a 64bit->32bit? (Or for that matter, 32bit->64bit.) There's not much reason to provide a 64 bit binary of dmd. I doubt it would run any faster, and there's no need for a compiler to consu

Re: Does DMD build as a 32bit binary under linux?

2010-09-06 Thread dsimcha
== Quote from Walter Bright (newshou...@digitalmars.com)'s article > There's not much reason to provide a 64 bit binary of dmd. How about using a computer that you don't have admin access to that doesn't offer good support for 32-bit binaries? Then again, for these cases you could just compile a

Re: Does DMD build as a 32bit binary under linux?

2010-09-06 Thread bearophile
Walter Bright: >I doubt it would run any faster,< I can't know. >and there's no need for a compiler to consume 5 GB of memory. I don't know. But currently it's not hard for me to reach about 1 GB of used RAM with template/CTFE-heavy code (once a certain CTFE bug is fixed, the needed memory p

Re: Does DMD build as a 32bit binary under linux?

2010-09-06 Thread BCS
Hello Walter, BCS wrote: I assuem that a 64bit DMD building 64bit binaries is one of the objective right now. How about a 64bit->32bit? (Or for that matter, 32bit->64bit.) There's not much reason to provide a 64 bit binary of dmd. I doubt it would run any faster, and there's no need for a co

Re: Does DMD build as a 32bit binary under linux?

2010-09-07 Thread Don
BCS wrote: Hello Walter, BCS wrote: I assuem that a 64bit DMD building 64bit binaries is one of the objective right now. How about a 64bit->32bit? (Or for that matter, 32bit->64bit.) There's not much reason to provide a 64 bit binary of dmd. I doubt it would run any faster, and there's no n