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[Andrew Wiley]

On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:
> On 2011-12-24 08:26, Andrew Wiley wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Steve Teale
>> <steve.teale at britseyeview.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Now here's an interesting target for D - this little beast could sell in
>>>
>>> millions, and could be the way that many youngsters start out as
>>> programmers.
>>>
>>> Presumably LDC would be the quickest thing to get on there?
>>>
>>> Steve
>>
>>
>> GDC on ARM has been working reasonably well for a while now (although
>> I get an ICE when building the latest trunk - still trying to come up
>> with enough information for a bug report). There's one major bug that
>> requires the section-anchors optimization to be disabled.
>>
>> Last I tried LDC on ARM, it built and segfaulted when building the
>> standard library. GCC code generation for ARM is apparently
>> significantly better than LLVM, so I haven't looked much farther into
>> LDC.
>
>
> LLVM can't be that bad since it's good enough for Apple and they're
> abandoning GCC in favor of Clang and LLVM.
>

I'm looking into it again, apparently it's improved dramatically on
ARM in the last few years. The compiler itself builds, but Druntime
needs some ARM-specific assembly. Working on that.