[dmd-internals] [D-Programming-Language/dmd] fb8947: make -m64 the default for 64 bit dmd

[Brad Roberts]

I just checked in going with path #2 since that's what's been happening since the 64 bit build started, even if it
doesn't make a lot of sense to ship 32 bit windows .di files with linux 64 bit builds.

On 4/30/2011 3:08 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
> I'm leaning towards #1.  Having the wrong .di files for windows in a linux 64 environment seems worse than not having
> them at all.
> 
> On 4/30/2011 2:51 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> I think forcing -m32 for Windows files is the right approach. We don't have 64 bit Windows support.
>>
>> On 4/30/2011 2:26 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> Looks like this triggers a 'bug' while building 64 bit output:
>>>
>>>> From http://d.puremagic.com/test-results/test_data.ghtml?dataid=59151
>>>
>>> ../dmd/src/dmd -m64 -c -d -o- -Isrc -Iimport -Hfimport/core/sys/windows/stacktrace.di src/core/sys/windows/stacktrace.d
>>> src/core/sys/windows/stacktrace.d(302): Error: cannot implicitly convert expression (symbolSize) of type ulong to uint
>>>
>>>
>>> This happens for both Linux 32/64 and Linux 64/64.
>>>
>>> It triggered for Linux 64/32 as well, but I fixed it with adding -m$(MODEL) to the make file to at least get the forced
>>> -m32 part through to that part of compilation.
>>>
>>> I see a few options:
>>>    1) disable .di generation for the windows files
>>>    2) force -m32 for the windows files
>>>    3) change the windows files to be 32/64 clean.
>>>    4) other options?
>>>
>>> Later,
>>> Brad