[dmd-internals] 8th Sprint Planning

[Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals]

On 10/28/2015 08:11 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On 28 Oct 2015, at 14:03, Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals wrote:
>> On 10/28/2015 03:48 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> Linux and FreeBSD are supported. OS X is officially not supported,
>>> native TLS is a blocker. I'm not sure about Windows.
>>
>> Thanks. Do we have a tracker issue for OSX and anyone working on it?
>> -- Andrei
>
> It would be pretty straightforward to get working on LDC/OS X
> – basically just go through our (well, Martin did most of the work)
> implementation for Linux and adapt it, using the dyld source code for
> reference [1]. I don't think anybody is working on it right now, though
> (Dan, maybe?).

Thanks, please keep us posted.

> For DMD, you are going to need the help of a person who is willing to
> deal with the backend part of the TLS implementation first. You can the
> use the same solution as for LDC.

I'll ask Walter. So are you referring to the existing Linux LDC 
implementation, or the not-yet-existing OSX LDC implementation you 
sketched above?


Andrei