gdc for rv32&64

[max haughton]

On Sunday, 15 August 2021 at 19:42:11 UTC, Mahdi wrote:
> On Sunday, 15 August 2021 at 17:22:28 UTC, max haughton wrote:
>> On Sunday, 15 August 2021 at 15:03:26 UTC, Mahdi wrote:
>>> Hi Iain Buclaw, we appreciate your efforts in the d for the 
>>> gnu ecosystem.
>>> but what is the status of gdc for risc-v architecture, 
>>> especially newlib?
>>
>> explore.dgnu.org
>>
>> Have a play with that, RISC-V should work perfectly fine for 
>> low level things like MCUs. Now, as for druntime and Phobos 
>> I'm not sure, you'll probably have to look at the source code.
>
> Thanks Max, I played with explore.dgnu.org and it doesn't seem 
> to have a problem with risc-v64&32-linux-gnu, but unfortunately 
> it still doesn't support riscv64-elf target.
> This target (elf) is much more suitable for writing metal-bare 
> or operation system goals.

By elf target you mean that it doesn't assume the existence of 
Linux APIs? What's the difference? It will be outputting an elf 
binary