64-bit support

Bill Baxter dnewsgroup at billbaxter.com
Tue Feb 12 21:13:48 PST 2008


Graham St Jack wrote:
>> I've got hopes that one day an LLVM-based D compiler will be the one D
>> compiler to rule them all.
>> (There's a start of one limping along at
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/llvmdc).
> 
> Sounds great - looking forward to it.

Yeh, me too.  But I'm afraid that unless it becomes someone's full-time 
obsession, realistically it's never going to be ready for prime time.

Thomas L. Olsen has gotten it off to a good start as his hobby project, 
despite apparently starting from zero knowledge of how LLVM works.  But 
I don't think his spare time effort is really going to be enough to 
create a competitive compiler, ultimately.

Hopefully the good start he's provided will attract the attention of 
someone with time and knowledge enough to carry it through to the finish 
line.  Or perhaps TLO himself will find some way to make it happen.

[Dreaming] Before too long here, not supporting 64-bit architectures is 
going to become an untenable position for any compiler.  As that day 
approaches, eventually Walter himself may decide that switching to the 
LLVM back-end makes the most sense.  If so then LLVMDC would give him a 
nice start, I think.

--bb



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