iOS arm64 support coming along nicely

[ChangLong via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Tuesday, 8 September 2015 at 15:52:11 UTC, Dan Olson wrote:
> Having a free day on Monday and a recently acquired iPhone 6, I 
> started adding support for iOS arm64 to LDC.  So far going 
> smoothly with druntime compiling, Threads and Fiber switching 
> working on the h/w.  TLS functions with same approach as 32-bit 
> ARM: a small modification to LLVM that works with [1].
>
> Next task is to fix up the C ABI as iOS calling convention [2] 
> is a variation on AAPCS64.  Started with LDC's 
> gen/abi-aarch64.cpp, but a couple files of phobos ICE in LLVM 
> vararg code, which I expect is due to iOS variation.
>
> [1] https://github.com/smolt/iphoneos-apple-support [2] 
> https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/iPhoneOSABIReference/Articles/ARM64FunctionCallingConventions.html

Good work and great news.

Do you think app build by LDC can be released in Apple store?