Handling constructive criticism

[Jason House]

Sean Kelly Wrote:

> == Quote from Jason House (jason.james.house at gmail.com)'s article
> > Following my own advice for a more proacitve role to constructive criticism...
> > Sean Kelly Wrote:
> > > It would be nice if 64-bit support were improved
> > > (or at least the ABI were
> > > modified to account for this)
> > Who defines the ABI?  Is that just Walter?  Do people developing GDC and LLVMDC have any kind of
> influence over this process?
> 
> It's Walter.  Though I imagine he may be open to input, particularly for
> platforms that DMD doesn't target.

Here's where I guess we have to hope Walter sees this and responds, or maybe someone who has direct contact to Walter will ask him about this.  It'd be really nice if gdc didn't have to break d standards to support 64 bit.



> > > and if the linker discarded more unused code.
> > What is "the linker"?  is this a problem with the digital mars tools or a more generic problem?
> 
> This has been mentioned most often regarding the DigitalMars linker, but
> from what I understand, "ld" has the same problem, even with "gc-sections"
> set.  Apparently, the LLVM linker works as desired, however.

Is there a feature request for this with digital mars already?

Does anyone know if the ld team is aware of this issue?  If not, someone should submit a request to them.