Migrating dmd to D?

Walter Bright newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Sat Mar 2 21:48:28 PST 2013


On 3/2/2013 8:36 PM, js.mdnq wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 23:09:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 3/2/2013 3:00 PM, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>>> On 3/2/13, Dicebot <m.strashun at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Wow, I have never known something like that exists! Is there
>>>> description of what it actually does or source code is only
>>>> possible reference. Depending on actual limitations, it may be a
>>>> game changer.
>>>
>>> I had alook, all it does is avoids generating moduleinfo. I'm not sure
>>> how that helps, the GC still works with this switch.
>>>
>>
>> By not generating moduleinfo, which needs phobos to work, it can link with C
>> only.
>
> But isn't there a few language constructs the specifically rely on the GC?

Yes, and those will fail to link.



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