OpenBSD port of dmd?

[Sean Kelly]

On Mar 16, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Johannes Pfau wrote:

> Am Fri, 16 Mar 2012 12:08:01 -0700
> schrieb Walter Bright <newshound2 at digitalmars.com>:
> 
>> On 3/16/2012 7:53 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>>> Just found this, has anyone tried dmd or friends on OpenBSD?
>>> 
>>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9698581/programming-in-d-for-openbsd
>> 
>> There was a start on an OpenBSD port, but it hasn't progressed very
>> far. It shouldn't be hard - if someone wants to pick up the flag on
>> this and run with it, I'd be happy to fold in the changes.
> 
> AFAICS OpenBSD doesn't support TLS (the __thread tls, posix
> pthread_getspecific works of course). Can D work at all without TLS
> support?
> 
> (We have a similar problem with Android, I know for sure TLS isn't
> supported there.)

OSX pre-Lion doesn't support __thread either, so DMD rolls its own there.  The same functionality could probably be used for OpenBSD.