Does DMD build as a 32bit binary under linux?

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Mon Sep 6 13:05:46 PDT 2010


== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound2 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> There's not much reason to provide a 64 bit binary of dmd.

How about using a computer that you don't have admin access to that doesn't offer
good support for 32-bit binaries?  Then again, for these cases you could just
compile a 64 binary from source.

> there's no need for a compiler to consume 5 GB of memory.

CTFE/fancy metaprogramming?  Lately DMD seems to use ~500MB of memory to compile
Phobos.



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