Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Benjamin Thaut
Am 08.02.2013 08:18, schrieb Walter Bright: On 2/7/2013 10:36 PM, Oleg Kuporosov wrote: That is cool, but what is the target platform - Win/Lin, 32/64? Initially, Linux. Once that is worked out, doing the others should be straightforward. Well windows will be quite some work because DLLs

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-02-07 21:16, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work We want to have this on all platforms but is there a platform that is prioritized for

libcurl vulnerability

2013-02-08 Thread Vladimir Panteleev
Hello everyone, Please be advised that the curl library, versions 7.26.0 to and including 7.28.1, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability. Although the vulnerability is in email-related code (and thus affects the POP3, SMTP and IMAP protocols), a malicious/compromised HTTP server

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-02-07 22:01, Maxim Fomin wrote: On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. This is nice. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Jacob Carlborg
On 2013-02-07 21:16, Walter Bright wrote: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work I'm willing to help on this one, especially for Mac OS X. I have wanted this for quite a long time. -- /Jacob Carlborg

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread nazriel
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work AFAIK Martin Nowak has done first part for you. Pull requests

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Sean Kelly
On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Which platform? Loading a single dynamic D

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Rob T
On Thursday, 7 February 2013 at 20:16:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work (b) improve language safety without degrading efficiency (c)

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Walter Bright
On 2/8/2013 12:29 PM, Sean Kelly wrote: On Feb 7, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work Which

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Iain Buclaw
On 7 Feb 2013 20:21, Walter Bright newshou...@digitalmars.com wrote: No, I can't say who it is at this time. Sorry. But it is a huge opportunity for us. To get the design win, we need to: (a) get dynamic linking and loading to work We should probably discuss implemetation ideas when you

Re: Another opportunity for a major design win has presented itself

2013-02-08 Thread Rob T
The compiler currently has an option -shared for generating a shared library. It also has an option -fPIC for generating position independent code. If option -shared is selected, will it automatically generate as PIC, or do you have to also specify -fPIC? --rt