Should LLVM become the default D-lang platform?

[Manu]

On 11 January 2014 23:04, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:

> On 11 January 2014 00:24, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 11 January 2014 06:59, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 10 January 2014 20:54, John Colvin <john.loughran.colvin at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find any thread
> >> >> about this. As things has progressed I wonder if Digital Mars DMD
> >> >> should
> >> >> move over to use LLVM instead of its own code generation and compiler
> >> >> framework.
> >> >>
> >> >> As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language has, DMD
> >> >> will
> >> >> never support anything beyond x86 as there are no resources for this.
> >> >> Also,
> >> >> why spend time on recreating the the code generation which has
> already
> >> >> been
> >> >> done with LLVM? This enables this community to focus on the language
> >> >> which
> >> >> is the most important part as well as supporting more and future
> >> >> processor
> >> >> targets.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd with
> llvm
> >> > backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc framework.
> >>
> >> Indeed. But naturally I'd suggest they move to GCC.  ;-)
> >
> >
> > Is it possible that GDC will ever produce binaries that will link against
> > the microsoft libs without problems?
> > In my experience, GDC produces intrinsic calls to its own runtime all
> over
> > the place, and it's not compatible with the microsoft runtime. I also
> recall
> > library format mismatch, but that was a long time ago, and I think we
> > discussed it again since deciding that GDC is now using the same format
> as
> > VisualC in windows...?
> > Can GDC write PDB debuginfo into the objects (CV8 I think it is)?
>
> As I understand, neither GCC nor LLVM are capable of producing PDB.
> Has Microsoft even release any documentation or code necessary to
> produce files in their PDB format?
>

Walter did it for DMD. I think CV8 is more or less documented, but he found
some Microsoft tweaks to the format, or something like that.
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