Hitchikers Guide to Porting Phobos / D Runtime to other architectures

[Sean Kelly]

On Monday, 9 April 2012 at 10:19:47 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
> Personally I feel that people porting to specific architectures 
> should maintain their differences in separate files under a 
> /ports directory structure - lets say core.stdc.stdio as a cod 
> example. The version for bionic would be under 
> /ports/bionic/core/stdc/stdio.d, and that is the module that 
> gets compiled into the library when building for bionic. When 
> installing, the build process generates a header file of the 
> bionic version of core.stdc.stdio and puts the file in the 
> correct /include/core/stdc/stdio.di location.

This would really be fine.  I'd even say just put them in 
core.sys.bionic or whatever, except that this location is for 
platform-specific imports and so core.sys.bionic.stdio could 
contain nonstandard extensions, while anything exposed by 
core.stdc should not.  For all of these issues, bugzilla tickets 
and/or pull requests are much appreciated.  I know that the 
design I chose for my own ease of maintenance may not scale past 
the handful of platforms DMD targets.