embedded ARM support

Taylor Hillegeist via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Nov 9 12:24:03 PST 2015


On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 20:09:05 UTC, Timo Sintonen wrote:
> On Monday, 9 November 2015 at 19:00:32 UTC, Taylor Hillegeist 
> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe I am wrong, But I believe that the low level community 
>> is awaiting the release of GDC/LDC compatible with 2.067 DMD 
>> front end. This will allow for volatile store/load. and 
>> hopefully begin a new era of D micro programming. I'm sure 
>> this isn't the whole story. but i get the feeling it is a 
>> major part of the minimal micro-controller involvement.
>
> Yes, that is the problem but the solution is not acceptable. We 
> discussed about alternative solutions in gdc forum last year. 
> Possibilities are to make something gdc specific or to use a 
> custom data type. It was seen good to build this feature 
> somehow into gdc but on the other hand there is a need to keep 
> gdc as close to dmd as possible.

In what way is the solution unacceptable?

Solution is not easy to use.
Solution is does not solve problem.
Solution is not easy/possible to implement.
Can not be implemented in a uniform way.

Just curious? perhaps a link to the discussion would be good 
enough. thanks.


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