Building for ARM with LDC

[Joakim via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 21:44:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 September 2014 at 21:29:52 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Tuesday, 2 September 2014 at 09:44:29 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> The std.string.sformat issue with the phobos tests that I 
>>> mentioned earlier was in a static ctor for std.net.curl.  
>>> Once I removed that module from the test runner, I got 4 
>>> phobos modules' tests to pass, 10 modules assert in a test 
>>> somewhere, 44 seg fault, and 8 say they "Aborted," so I'm 
>>> 4/69 on the phobos unit tests right now (I got std.traits to 
>>> compile with a small fix).  Is that about what you guys got 
>>> when you ran the phobos tests on ARM before?
>>>
>>> I can't say if EH is the main issue or if there are other 
>>> porting issues, as I haven't started looking into the details 
>>> yet.
>>
>> I just tried cross-compiling to ARM with the merge-2.066 
>> branch and llvm 3.5 and the latter seems to make a bunch of 
>> seg faults go away. :) rt.minfo passes its tests now, but 
>> core.time asserts and so does core.internal.convert still.  As 
>> for phobos, 3 modules pass, 46 modules assert- 41 of which 
>> assert in one test in std.format, not sure why other modules 
>> are running tests for std.format- only 9 segfault, and 10 are 
>> "Aborted," so I'm down to 3/69 now, but hopefully much easier 
>> to fix with less segfaults.
>>
>> I didn't get this improvement with merge-2.066 and llvm 3.4, 
>> so it's definitely llvm 3.5 that made the difference, not sure 
>> why.
>
> More good news, the sieve.d sample file from dmd's repo now not 
> only compiles fine against phobos but doesn't spit out junk 
> output anymore, ie it works.  I wish all ldc problems could 
> just be solved by an llvm upgrade like this. ;)

Yikes, spoke too soon, it prints out the first line and then 
segfaults.  I guess this is an improvement over junk output.