Google Summer of Code 2013(?)

[Iain Buclaw]

On 27 March 2013 08:14, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Through testing I've done in the past, QEMU+ARM is reliable enough that you
can compile + test GCC under it.  Other than that, we can go for using
cross compilers.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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