[phobos] 64-bit

[Walter Bright]

David Simcha wrote:
> I saw Walter's latest checkin for DMD and needless to say, I'm 
> extremely excited.  Is there an incomplete version of 64-bit DMD 
> available yet that will do all frontend-related stuff assuming 
> void*.sizeof == 8, size_t.sizeof == 8, etc. and then skip the 
> codegen?  I would like to run it on the libraries that I use/develop 
> (Phobos, dstats, parallelfuture) to have it check whether there are 
> any issues related to improper assumptions about things like the size 
> of pointers and size_t's and start fixing them now if there are any, 
> so that when 64-bit support is complete these libs are ready to go.
>

It'll be a while yet. But I don't anticipate much problem with Phobos, 
just the inline assembly has to be reviewed.