Working LDC iOS (iPhone) on github

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2014-02-14 10:02, Dan Olson wrote:
> I think the LDC + iOS stuff it is working well enough that others might
> have fun with it too.  I made a fork of ldc/druntime on github and
> pushed up changes into branch ios-2.064.  It is based on ldc merge-2.064
> branch.  You will find very few changes were needed to get this far.  It
> has been mostly a game of finding the right recipe and stubbing out
> missing functions for iOS.
>
> What can you do with it?  Well, as far as I know, most of D 2.064
> appears to work with the exception of exceptions (that came out nice)
> and thread locals.  I am sure there are many pits and holes to fall into
> though.
>
> In general:
> - TLS support not available so I disabled for now

If TLS is not natively supported, can it be emulated like DMD currently 
does on OS X?

> - Threads "work", but there are unfinished pieces and a wumpus hiding
>    here (e.g. not sure what gc will do when it triggers)
> - You can throw exceptions, but they have a tragic ending
> - debug info does not work and -g causes link warnings
> - things are hardcoded for iOS in a few places, so this branch may not
>    work as a native compiler).  For example, I had to hardcode real type
>    as a 64-bit double (dmd uses host's long double type for real)
>


> I hope it works for somebody besides me.  Thanks to everyone who helped
> so far.

This sounds great :)

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/Jacob Carlborg