Win7 64-bit

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Monday, March 07, 2011 06:23:09 Stewart Gordon wrote:
> On 07/03/2011 02:10, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> > If you're using -cov, you probably want -unittest,
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I disagree:
> 
> - Most of the time I use -cov, it's to check the normal flow of program
> logic, rather than the unittests.  It's true that it *can* be used to
> check that the unittests cover all cases, but that's far from its only
> use.
>
> - Even if checking unittests were its only *practical* use, it would be
> arbitrary to program in a restriction explicitly.

I believe that the _common_ use case for -cov is to check the coverage of your 
unit tests, in which case you'd also need to use -unittest (that's what is 
_normally_ meant when talking about code coverage). However, there's nothing 
stopping you from using it when running your program normally.

> Moreover, does DMD have a Win64 (either runs on or compiles for) version? 
> Or is it just the normal Win32 version, running on your 64-bit system?  It
> would be useful if we could find out the circumstances in which this bug
> bites.

As far dmd itself goes, only a 32-bit binary exists, and Walter has no plans to 
create 64-bit version. In terms of compiling with dmd, Linux got 64-bit 
compilation (when you use -m64) with the latest release, but there are a number 
of things which will need to be sorted out before dmd will be able to compile 
64-bit programs on Windows (including having a 64-bit linker).

- Jonathan M Davis