Google Summer of Code 2013(?)

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:50:40 +0100
schrieb Martin Nowak <code at dawg.eu>:

> On 03/26/2013 06:22 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > We certainly can do. Which compiler do you have in mind for using?
> >
> I mostly thought of porting GDC and LDC to linux glibc and bionic.
> A Windows ARM port would be interesting too, but could be out of
> reach. Support for bare metal targets is interesting too (I've
> already used GDC for STM32) but way less important.

Android support would be very nice but I'd make it a secondary goal.
As we have shared libraries now the only big remaining problem is that
Android doesn't have real TLS so we'd have to make the GCC EMUTLS
implementation work with our GC. For glibc android targets this issue
doesn't exist.

Would be nice if we can get the dmd test suite results to match those
for x86. It will be a little annoying though as many floating point test
are wrong and simply assume x86 precision.

I'd be glad to help wherever I can though.

> > I have two ARM boards at hand, but will need to get round to buying
> > a monitor to connect up at least one of them to start off the port
> > and testing process. :-)
> >
> I have two android devices, some STM32 boards and getting a raspberry
> or so would not be a problem. I guess qemu could be used too.
> 

qemu + debian for arm might be a good idea. I wonder whether ARM
emulated by qemu is faster than e.g. a Raspberry Pi. Compiling GDC on
the raspberry itself takes over 12 hours IIRC so you probably want to
build cross compilers or use a faster system.