Building LDC runtime for a microcontroller

[Dylan Graham]

On Friday, 18 September 2020 at 07:44:50 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote:
> On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 19:12:59 UTC, aberba wrote:
>> On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 16:18:00 UTC, IGotD- wrote:
>>> On Monday, 7 September 2020 at 15:23:28 UTC, Severin Teona 
>>> wrote:
>>>> [...]
>>>
>>> Use betterC, which is much better suited for microcontrollers 
>>> than the full D. The disadvantage is that many great features 
>>> are disabled in betterC.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> How about an alternative runtime + standard library for 
>> embedded systems...with a least bare minimum. I've seen a 
>> number of efforts to get D to run in those environments but 
>> almost none of them is packaged for others to consume.
>
> [...]
>
> A lot of embedded stuff is done with RTOSs now that provide 
> memory management and threading support, so having a flexible 
> lightweight runtime with a generic backend (mem allocation, 
> threads) that I can hook to the RTOS' libraries would be great.

I'm starting work on a small runtime according to this 
specification. I can't promise a whole lot; it will be barebones. 
I'm targeting the STM32 series (ARM Cortex M0-4).