Compiled dmd2.032 in VC++ 2009!

[Brad Roberts]

On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Leandro Lucarella wrote:

> bearophile, el  4 de septiembre a las 08:15 me escribiste:
> > Jeremie Pelletier:
> > 
> > >VC++ has no real support for long double; it supports the syntax as distinct types but they are implemented as double precision, not extended precision.<
> > 
> > This is true in GDC (with GCC backend) too, that's why real in D are as large as possible and not fixed-sized as the other types.
> > 
> > 
> > >I also couldn't get the compiler to compile *.c as C++, even with the /TP switch (Compile as C++), I had to rename every file to *.cpp.<
> > 
> > This looks like a change good to be folded back into DMD sources.
> 
> I offered myself to do such a change in the past, but Walter didn't liked
> it. I did it for purely aesthetic reasons, though, maybe if that is useful
> in some way he'll accept the change.
> 
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Don't consider it an all or nothing exercise.  I'll bet there are 
parts that are easy to agree are generally useful and worth folding in.  
That can at least make life easier by keeping the unmerged parts smaller 
and hopefully less painful to deal with.

Later,
Brad