[dmd-internals] Building Phobos and druntime as a dylib on Mac OS X

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Fri Dec 2 13:34:15 PST 2011



On 12/2/2011 1:26 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 12/2/11 9:51 PM, Brad Roberts wrote:
>> I don't remember what the problems were, but there were definitly problems
>> with using llvm on lion when Sean first upgraded the box the tester runs
>> on so we switched it back to gcc.  At some point, someone will have to
>> take the plunge and figure out what the issue(s) was(were).
>
> One of the issues was this, where the DMD malloc implementation didn't align 
> memory correctly: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/301.
>
> Even with the fix in, there were some other random bugs/oddities though, which 
> I didn't even attempt to track down before switching back (if I remember 
> correctly).
>

Yeah, we'll wait a while longer.


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