64-bit

[Lutger]

dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from Lutger (lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com)'s article
>> Currently:
>> LDC is a mature compiler that does linux 64 bit well, but is not
>> available for D2, the 'alpha' branch of the language and also doesn't
>> work on windows. The outdated compiler you speak of would probably be
>> GDC, this project has recently been revived. The is no 64-bit dmd yet.
>> At the moment all efforts I believe are on finishing the D2 language and
>> current dmd bugs, as well as a book called 'The D programming language'.
>> IIRC the deadline is somewhere end of this year.
>> What happens after that I don't know, I haven't seen any statement that
>> work on 64-bit is planned. I would rather bet on GDC and / or LDC getting
>> full 64-but support for D2 before dmd.
> 
> Where has GDC been revived?  It doesn't look like there have been any
> checkins on the sourceforge site since Feb.

It has forked to http://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home

See also:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=D.gnu&article_id=3516