D as A Better C?

Steven Schveighoffer schveiguy at yahoo.com
Thu Feb 13 09:21:29 PST 2014


On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 11:30:30 -0500, Andrei Alexandrescu  
<SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> wrote:

> On 2/12/14, 7:40 AM, Sean Kelly wrote:
>> This would certainly be a useful feature to have when porting, and
>> Walter clearly uses it himself.  Assuming this can be done with minimal
>> work, I'd say make it a DMD thing rather than a D thing in general.
>> Like -profile.  And add a switch to enable it in the front-end if
>> possible.  Then DMD (and potentially the other compilers) will have the
>> feature in case anyone finds it useful and we can move on.  Call it
>> -minimal.
>>
>> I have a feeling we've already spent more time talking about this than
>> Walter would have spent implementing it anyway, so it's already taking
>> time away from other things.  Let's just give it a nod and move on.
>
> I convinced Walter of my view on this, so he won't work on it. I trust  
> that at least between the two of us we can focus on working on what  
> matters most first.

Anyone else wish to take this up? I think pull requests would be welcome.

-Steve


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