TLS + LDC + Android (ARM) = FAIL

[Iain Buclaw]

On 1 November 2017 at 19:28, Johannes Pfau via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> Am Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:42:22 +0000
> schrieb David Nadlinger <code at klickverbot.at>:
>
>> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 17:30:05 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> > GDC supports the same or maybe more platforms than LDC. :-)
>>
>> Or quite possibly fewer, depending on what one understands
>> "platform" and "support" to mean. ;)
>>
>> What is the state of GDC on Android/ARM – has anyone been using
>> it recently?
>>
>>   — David
>>
>
> ARM: Fine. Android: probably won't work well. AFAIK we're only
> missing emulated TLS / GC integration, so most test will pass but real
> apps will crash because of GC memory corruption. I guess I should
> finally get back to fixing that problem ;-) OTOH Android doesn't even
> support GCC anymore, so I don't really see much benefit in maintaining
> GDC Android support.
>
>
> -- Johannes
>

What's the thread model on Android?  You could perhaps get away with
--enable-threads=single.