ARM targetting cross-toolchain with GDC

[Timofei Bolshakov]

Thank you!
I will check that today. What to do about static asserts in 
thread.d?

On Thursday, 2 May 2013 at 14:54:44 UTC, Johannes Pfau wrote:
> Am Tue, 30 Apr 2013 22:40:32 +0200
> schrieb "Timofei Bolshakoc" <tbolsh at gmail.com>:
>
>> I was able to compile DGC to the Hello, World status for ARM 
>> using crosstools-ng 1.18 eglibc. uclibc would not work, it 
>> lack some of the functions in the library, context switching. 
>> There are several places I cheat ( to get Hello, World! ). 
>> Please advise:
>> 
>> ../gcc-4.7.2/libphobos/libdruntime/core/sys/posix/ucontext.d:274: 
>> Error: static assert  "Not implemented"
>
> Add this to ucontext.d:
> https://gist.github.com/jpf91/5502741
>
> You probably also need this for core/sys/posix/sys/stat.d
> https://gist.github.com/jpf91/5502725
>
>> 
>> I simply commented static asserts - and I do not think it will 
>> fly with any real multi threading program. All the places 
>> consider context switching and assembly-level register 
>> manipulation. Can somebody help me with that?
>
> The definition of ucontext_t should be enough. But this code is 
> only
> for fibers real threads don't need this support code and should 
> work
> fine without it. You probably also need the stat_t definition 
> posted
> above to do any kind of IO.