Breaking D2 language/spec changes with D1 being discontinued in a month

[H. S. Teoh]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 06:31:45PM -0600, 1100110 wrote:
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> Oh! while I have your attention...  Looking at the makefiles for
> DMD, all of them are set to build 32bit by default.  Usually that is
> unset, and the environment that you are compiling in dictates which
> one is implicitly chosen.
> 
> Why have it set to build 32 by default?  It's not an issue or
> anything, but it's been a long time since I've had a setup capable
> of build  32bit apps easily.  I always have to change that.  Is
> there any particular reason that that option is set rather than
> unset?

Rarely known fact: you can invoke make like this:

	make -f posix.mak MODEL=64

There is no need to change the environment.

(I don't know about Windows make, but I suspect something similar, if
not the same, is possible.)


T

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