DMD Backend Long-term

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

KennyTM~ wrote:
> On Jun 24, 10 03:57, bearophile wrote:
>> Thank you Jerome and all the people that have answered me, I was
>> ignorant about GNU license.
>>
>>> if you call a DLL and give it a callback and your callback throws then
>>> the cleanup code in the DLL won't be run (and vice versa of course).
>>> SEH would allow this to work.
>>
>> If someone writes a compiler/language that allows programs to be
>> ported with no problems from Windows to other nonwindows systems, this
>> may damage Windows a little (but isn't Mono able to do this with C#2
>> programs?).
>>
>> But it's economically advantageous for Microsoft to make it easy for
>> people to create new compilers and languages for Windows that work
>> well with other Windows programs. So in my opinion having a good
>> Clang++ on Windows is good for the economic well-being of Windows.
>> They can grant LLVM a free licence to use Windows-style exceptions.
>>
>> Bye,
>> bearophile
> 
> Why should Microsoft do that instead of promoting Visual C++? ;)

	Because they're giving away Visual C++ for free anyway?

		Jerome
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