dmd 2.065 - Agenda

[Timothee Cour]

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 3:33 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On Saturday, 9 November 2013 at 04:43:24 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
>
>  runtime loading of shared libraries on OSX, so that it works as on linux
>> I see b/10440 fixed in changelog, however does that mean it should work as
>> safely as on linux? (both runtime and nonruntime libs)
>>
>
> Unfortunately no. I think the biggest obstacle is TLS. DMD emulates TLS on
> Mac OS X, which doesn't really work with dynamic libraries. It didn't exist
> natively on Mac OS X when DMD for D2 was ported to Mac OS X. I guess that
> best option is that DMD start to use native TLS. That would mean we need to
> drop support for Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6). Unless we move the part of
> the dynamic linker that handles TLS to druntime, which I think is
> technially possible.
>

10.6 is 3 releases old, it would be acceptable. Should we use a quick poll (
https://www.surveymonkey.com/) to vote for it?


>
> Except from that I think it might be easier to implement support for
> dynamic libraries on Mac OS X. The dynamic linker on Mac OS X has a much
> broader API than on Linux. We can use more of the existing functions there.
>
> --
> /Jacob Carlborg
>
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