Should we finally ditch the 32-bit build of dmd?

Vladimir Panteleev thecybershadow.lists at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 18:02:20 UTC 2021


On Wednesday, 16 June 2021 at 17:59:06 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> By numerous reports the world is ditching 32 bit for good:
>
> https://www.androidauthority.com/arm-32-vs-64-bit-explained-1232065/
>
> There's significant effort needed in the dmd source code to 
> accommodate 32 bit builds, which nobody should use.
>
> Ditch?

A good time to do this would be when the minimally supported 
Windows version is bumped to a version which does not have a 
32-bit edition.

Until then, probably not.


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