Forums suffering Priority Inversion with Livelock

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Steven Schveighoffer wrote:

> "e-t172" wrote
>> Steven Schveighoffer a écrit :
>>> I'd hazard to guess that 90% of software developers couldn't care less.
>>> If I have an x86-64 platform, I have no idea, I just know the compiler
>>> makes code and it runs :)  And my computer is only a year old, so it
>>> probably is
>>
>> Imagine you want to compile a program for a Debian x86_64 (or any other
>> 64bit distribution). Problem is, you can't link a 32bit program to 64bit
>> libraries. So if you want to link your D program to third party C
>> libraries, you're basically screwed. Therefore, I think they care,
>> actually.
> 
> I didn't realize this was the case, so it's not as much a non-issue as I
> thought.  But I think you might be in the minority, there are still plenty
> of actively developed 32-bit OSes for Intel processors, so the suggestion
> that D is focusing on a platform as dead as 286s is grossly false.
> 
> Besides that point, there is no reason that we can't have discussions on
> the NG about language features AND have other people port the D compiler
> to
> x86_64.  AFAIK, gdc is open source and you are welcome to try and port it.

And as far as I know, GDC is pretty stable on x86_64, although not 100%
conforming with the D spec.

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