Looks like Digital Mars C++ is on the front page of HN at the moment!

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Thu May 24 20:10:24 UTC 2018


On 5/24/2018 1:06 PM, Basile B. wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 18:54:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/23/2018 7:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Back on the front page with an apparent followup:
>>>
>>> Consider using Digital Mars C compiler (virtualbox.org)
>>> 33 points by yuhong 3 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 14 
>>> comments
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/news
>>
>> Direct link:
>>
>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17139305
> 
> At last the Digital Mars stand C library sources.
> Maybe now things can be be fixed more easily, although win32 is dead now.
> 
> Now snn has to be compiled for mscoff32 (so not possible with DMC, right ?) and 
> generate DWARF2 debug info and finally GDB could be used under win32, giving a 
> working, out of the box, MS-free, package, just like current one but with more 
> coherent object type.
> 
> Ahhh i was forgetting, the linker...
> 
> Possible before 2020 ?

Maybe. I was thinking about using DasBetterC for the DMC runtime library instead 
of C :-)


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