x86_64 support please!

[Johan Granberg]

Don Clugston wrote:

> Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
>> Kiriakos Alexoglou wrote:
>> 
>>> Please Walter add support for x86_64!
>>>
>>> I use Suse Linux 10.0 and developing in Qt and
>>> I want to try make Qt bindings for dmd.
>>>
>>> The bindings that exist for Qt right now,
>>> can all work with x86_64 architectures.
>>>
>>> In my personal opinion x86_64 support is
>>> more important than adding additional feutures to dmd.
> 
> vote--. That may be true, but do you have any idea how much work this
> would involve?? (Hint: begin by implementing a linker from scratch).
> We'd lose Walter for a year! Has to happen someday, but I don't think
> Walter should put any thought into it until GDC-64 is firmly established.
> 
> OTOH, I hope we get a working GDC-x64 very soon.

I agree. The important thing is not to get dmd64 but to get a D 64bit
compiler, that we get some D 64bit compiler is rather urgent thou.