DMD as cross-compiler
Andrea Fontana
nospam at example.com
Wed Nov 11 13:47:46 UTC 2020
On Wednesday, 11 November 2020 at 10:49:54 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
> I realized that DMD is pretty close to being a cross-compiler,
> and won't need much work to go the rest of the way. I
> anticipate it could be very convenient when inconvenient to get
> the native DMD installed. It also should be useful for
> debugging problems with test suite failures :-/
>
> Much of the static versioning in the backend is the result of
> converting it from C with its #if statements. Being done with
> all that preprocessor legacy will be nice.
>
> Working on a series of incremental PRs to make this happen.
Wow nice! But will it work out-of-the-box? I mean: what about
linking with druntime, for example?
Andrea
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