D on Power8 (PPC64)

[kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Monday, 7 August 2017 at 20:39:40 UTC, Dmitry Olshansky wrote:
> What is the status of the platform?
> I might be doing some number crunching on one of the power8 
> beasts, would be nice to have D working there.

Not that bad afaik. LDC should be able to build itself, the 
runtime libs and their unittests, but a bunch of tests fail. 
Little-endian could be working pretty well out of the box, but 
Phobos doesn't fully support big-endian architectures (at least 
last time I checked).
See https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/1909. [The 
initial problems for that guy were due to a faulty host compiler; 
make sure to bootstrap LDC via latest ltsmaster branch.]