Looking for someone that could work on 32 bits support for SDC

[Brandon Ragland via Digitalmars-d]

On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 01:35:09 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
> On Friday, 11 September 2015 at 01:12:21 UTC, Brandon Ragland 
> wrote:
>> [...]
>
> Sure. First thing first, try to checkout the project and get it 
> to build and pass the tests (well, some tests will fail, but 
> you should get 0 regressions).
>
> Step 2 would be to modify the test runner to be able to run in 
> 64 or 32 bits. Some tests will have a different result in 32 
> bits, notably the ones that use the pointer size somewhere. 
> (tests/runner.d)
>
> Step 3 add a m32/m64 flags to SDC. It is using the getopt from 
> phobos and that should be fairly straightforward. 
> (sdc/src/main.d)
>
> Step 4 go through the codegen (libd-llvm) and update it to take 
> the flag into account. (that's the big chunk). There may be 
> some places in the frontend that assume 64 bits pointers, but 
> if so, not many.
>
> Step 5 go through the runtime and do the same. There shouldn't 
> be many here as well, but I'm not sure.
>
> In a first instance, I guess the right move is to target x86 
> because it is fairly close to x64 so it should work with 
> minimal changes in the runtime.
>
> You can jump in IRC if you want to talk more about the details.

x86 would be easiest to target.

I've checked out the repo, built it so far, and indeed some 
failures but no big deals.

Currently paging through to get a hold on what's in there. (I'll 
be the first to admit I don't know squat about the LLVM compiler).