Questions about windows support

H. S. Teoh hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx
Mon Feb 20 15:04:02 PST 2012


On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:00:14PM -0500, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> On Monday, February 20, 2012 15:00:28 H. S. Teoh wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 05:25:28PM -0500, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> > > On Monday, February 20, 2012 22:36:49 Benjamin Thaut wrote:
> > > > 1) Is there a chance that dmd will support 64 bit on windows any
> > > > time soon? What are the issues currently with 64 bit support on
> > > > windows? (optlink? backend?)
> > > 
> > > Neither support 64-bit. So, the changes required to the toolchain
> > > are _far_ greater for 64-bit Windows than the Posix OSes. It'll
> > > come eventually, but probably not for a while.
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > Does gdc support 64-bit? AFAIK it should, since it uses the gcc
> > backend.
> 
> As I understand it, it does, but I've never used it.
[...]

Well, I guess my question was more along the lines of, does it provide
any 64-bit specific advantages? I've been using gdc as my main D
compiler, and I'm running 64-bit Linux. Seems to work fine.


T

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