Tango vs Phobos

[Lars Ivar Igesund]

Anders F Björklund wrote:

> Walter Bright wrote:
> 
>>> Most of the changes we've made are to fix portability/platform related
>>> issues. For example, extensive use of printf formatting flags
>>> unsupported by ming32,
>> 
>> Umm, those are standard C flags? Hasn't ming32 been updated yet?
>> 
>>> assumptions that target is 32bit, etc.
>>>
>>> These would be really nice to get fixed in your tree as they make up
>>> the majority of the changes, and it would make merging in your DMD
>>> updates quite a bit easier. Also it would probably help other people
>>> use the frontend for different things in the future.
>> 
>> Yes, I agree. Absolutely!
> 
> GDC has a couple of those portability changes too, that might be
> useful to merge back into DMD where that hasn't happened already...
> 
> 
> It also seems that Tango is having some problems with GDC, because
> it doesn't follow the DMD specification (sometimes for portability)
> 
> Like:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=670
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1066
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2191
> 
> Might be something worthwhile looking into, after the runtime issues
> between Phobos and Tango (i.e. the differences between DMD and GDC)

This is actually an intended topic at the Tango conference, if many
enough/right persons show up :)

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Lars Ivar Igesund
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