DMD 1.031 and 2.015 releases

Leandro Lucarella llucax at gmail.com
Fri Jun 20 06:32:18 PDT 2008


Walter Bright, el 19 de junio a las 14:52 me escribiste:
> Leandro Lucarella wrote:
> >Walter Bright, el 19 de junio a las 12:08 me escribiste:
> >>Many, many times, however, I wished it was in D just because it would make 
> >>coding it easier.
> >I don't think I have to tell *you* this, but since D is link compatible
> >with C, I don't think that's a real issue...
> 
> It is, for a couple reasons:
> 
> o  Some back ends (like mine) is in C++, not C.

But you can access C from C++!

> o  If you're porting D to a platform that has no existing D compiler on it,
> you're in for some significant problems.

Yes, that's true, but that can be solved making a D compiler that can
emits C code instead of asm/binary (just to boostrap in new platforms that
have a C compiler). I think LVMM can do that, right?

-- 
Leandro Lucarella (luca) | Blog colectivo: http://www.mazziblog.com.ar/blog/
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145  104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Y tuve amores, que fue uno sólo
El que me dejó de a pie y me enseñó todo...


More information about the Digitalmars-d-announce mailing list