64-bit support

[Graham St Jack]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:13:48 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:

> 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.

I agree.