Microsoft now giving away VS 2013

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 14 November 2014 06:21, Joakim via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 13:59:32 UTC, Wyatt wrote:
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>> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 08:50:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
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>>> So, how to write a source-to-source compiler from CS to D…? ;-)
>>
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>> I think it would be more useful would be to go the other way around for
>> targeting Windows Phone.  Or rather, it would be if anyone actually used WP.
>> (Going after Microsoft's also-ran mobile OS isn't particularly compelling
>> when our story for targeting Android is still in such a dire state.)
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>
> Dire state?  All druntime/phobos tests pass on Android/x86, except for
> std.datetime:
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> http://wiki.dlang.org/Build_DMD_for_Android
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> OK, that's not ARM that everybody cares about, but that just means combining
> an ARM backend from ldc or gdc and the existing linux/ARM and Android
> support in druntime/phobos, then hacking around the lack of native TLS on
> Android.  gdc supposedly supports emulated TLS, so all the pieces should be

Just missing a piece of runtime that ties emuTLS with the D GC.
Currently there's a deadlock situation between the GC allocating new
memory, and the emuTLS layer adding a new root for the GC to scan.
Should be trivial to make it work, but I haven't yet got back to
investing time in it.

Iain.