Anyone using DMD to build 32bit on OS X?
John Colvin via Digitalmars-d
digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Sun Jan 10 11:42:37 PST 2016
On Sunday, 10 January 2016 at 17:12:40 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I've implemented native TLS in DMD on OS X for 64bit. Now the
> question is, does it need to work for 32bit as well?
>
> The easiest would be to drop the 32bit support all together.
> Other options would be to continue to use emulate TLS on 32bit
> or implement native TLS for 32bit as well. I would prefer to
> not have to do this for 32bit as well.
>
> As far as I know we haven't released a 32bit binary of DMD for
> a very long time. It would be very rare to find a Mac that
> cannot run 64bit binaries.
>
> Native TLS on OS X would mean that the runtime requirements for
> the binaries produced by DMD on OS X would be OS X 10.7 (Lion)
> or later. Hopefully that should not be a problem since it's
> several years (and versions) old.
I definitely don't care about 32 bit on OS X. However, I see no
need to drop it if the current TLS emulation works.
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