D/Objective-C 64bit

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

On 3/11/14, 4:18 PM, Michel Fortin wrote:
> On 2014-03-11 20:28:58 +0000, Andrei Alexandrescu
> <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> said:
>
>> On 3/11/14, 11:23 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP43
>>> [2] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dmd/tree/d-objc
>>
>> Wow, this is fantastic. Congratulations!
>>
>> Upon a quick scan, the DIP seems tasteful and well put together. Let's
>> see how to merge this into dmd!
>
> Honestly, I don't think it's ready to be part of the official
> distribution (no memory management being the worse issue). But it
> doesn't mean it shouldn't be merged. You need to compile it with the
> D_OBJC define to get a compiler with Objective-C capabilities, which
> means that those capabilities don't necessarily need to be part of the
> official distribution even if the changes are merged.
>
> So merge ahead.
>
> Also, I'll be glad to participate in the review given I wrote most of
> that code.

Great. Jacob, what's your plan to take this forward? We're very 
interested in merging this as part of the official D compiler.

Andrei