utiliD: A library with absolutely no dependencies for bare-metal programming and bootstrapping other D libraries

[Mike Franklin]

On Sunday, 5 May 2019 at 05:23:26 UTC, Eugene Wissner wrote:

> you may remember that I'm working on a library named "tanya" 
> (https://github.com/caraus-ecms/tanya). It is now almost 
> phobos-free and I reimplemented some routines from libc for 
> x86-64 linux. Ideally I'd like to get rid of libc for some 
> platforms. While the library isn't interesting for you since 
> it's too high-level, it could be based on something like utilD. 
> So, as for me, I'd be very much interested in collective effort 
> in this direction and can contribute.

Excellent!  Yes, I remember seeing tanya.  As you can tell I have 
very few details worked out with regard to utiliD.  You obviously 
have some more experience creating such a library.

I see that 
https://github.com/caraus-ecms/tanya/tree/master/arch/x64/linux/memory has what appears to be something equivalent to memcpy, memcmp, and memset.  I am very interested in having D implementations of those (inline assembly is D) but I also want to explore the idea keeping things strongly-typed (as least as long as possible) and utilize design-by-introspection to branch the implementation.

I'd be interested in hearing more about what you have in mind.

Thanks,
Mike