D for Android

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 3 August 2015 at 12:46:51 UTC, Elvis Zhou wrote:
> On Thursday, 30 July 2015 at 19:38:12 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Monday, 25 May 2015 at 20:08:48 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> [...]
>>
>> Some good news, I've made progress on the port to Android/ARM, 
>> using ldc's 2.067 branch.  Currently, all 46 modules in 
>> druntime and 85 of 88 modules in phobos pass their tests (I 
>> had to comment out a few tests across four modules) when run 
>> on the command-line.  There is a GC issue that causes 2-3 
>> other modules to hang only when the tests are run as part of 
>> an Android app/apk, ie a D shared library that's invoked by 
>> the Java runtime.
>>
>> [...]
>
> Would those patches for ldc/druntime/phobos be applied & merged 
> into LDC eventually?

For the ones I wrote which have not been upstreamed already, yes, 
I'll submit PRs once I get them cleaned up.  For example, I'd 
like to devise a way not to use dl_iterate_phdr to load 
pre-initialized data, so that Android versions older than 5.0 can 
run D too.  I need to look into employing the same bracketed 
sections approach that dmd uses.