[ABI] 128bit integers and other vendor types

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/28/14, 4:54 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Jonathan M Davis"  wrote in message
> news:lfhsrrkauworheqmedhm at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> I would point out that every time I've seen compiler devs discuss
>> using Phobos in dmd, there has been a large reluctance to do so (if
>> not outright a desire to avoid it entirely) in order to avoid the
>> circular dependencies that would ensue (Daniel Murphy in particular
>> really doesn't seem to like the idea).
>
> Yes, and I'm still against it.  It's not about the circular dependency
> (that already exists with druntime and is manageable) it's that
> including phobos effectively massively increases the size of the dmd
> codebase.  Phobos is also tied to the release cycles in a different way
> than it looks like ddmd will be.  Druntime is much smaller and much less
> worrying (and impossible to avoid).

There'd also be the argument that using phobos inside ddmd would make 
the latter a better test for itself and phobos. -- Andrei