What is the FreeBSD situation?

Rainer Schuetze r.sagitario at gmx.de
Sat Nov 4 08:54:45 UTC 2017



On 04.11.2017 09:30, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 11/3/2017 5:29 AM, Rainer Schuetze wrote:
>>> Note that dmd still runs on Windows XP, though it is not officially 
>>> supported. You just need to be careful about using TLS variables on 
>>> it :-(
>> to avoid spreading this false information: TLS in D works in 
>> dynamically loaded DLLs on WinXP since 2010.
> 
> The fact that we haven't officially tested that it works for years means 
> be careful about attesting that it does work.

It is working in Visual D since that time.

> 
> Even simple DLL support in Windows keeps breaking because it is not part 
> of the autotester test suite.

Agreed, they haven't been officially tested a lot in the past, but you 
have merged the PR to do that back in April: 
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6709


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