LDC predefined identifiers

[Robert Clipsham]

Brad Roberts wrote:
> Christian Kamm wrote:
>> Brad Roberts wrote:
>>> Thanks.  I've added them.  I'm not particularly excited about the way this
>>> looks, but take a peek:
>>>
>>> http://www.puremagic.com/~braddr/phobos-
>> trunk/2.0/version.html#PredefinedVersions
>>
>> Looks good to me. You've missed darwin (ldc only) though, while OSX works on 
>> both ldc and dmd. Shouldn't X86_64 and D_InlineAsm_X86_64 also be ldc only?
> 
> Fixed.
> 
>> I couldn't find it in gdc's documentation, but I think it uses freebsd, 
>> darwin and solaris and does not support the capitalized identifiers.
> 
> I opted to ignore GDC as it's update rate for way too many years has been all
> but zilch.  I'd love to see it alive and kicking and re-joining the ranks of D
> compilers.. and if it does, then we can re-address the list then.
> 
> I'm concerned at the differences just between dmd and ldc.  The multiple
> capitalizations are just going to cause grief if/when people use the ones that
> are ldc specific.
> 
> I'm also open to suggestions on how to better manage the last block.  It's a bit
> of a mismash of random identifiers.
> 
>> By the way, a neater list of ldc's version identifiers is available at
>> http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc/wiki/Docs#Versions
> 
> I liked the use of the src, it wass more likely to be accurate. :)
> 
> Walter, any objection to me submitting the changes to version.dd or would you
> prefer that I send you a patch to look at first?
> 
> Later,
> Brad

Dunno if anyone else thinks this, but the operating system looks very 
confusing with all the LDC only identifiers mixed in. I think it'd be a 
good idea to find out which of them are "deprecated" and remove them, eg 
only keeping one of either solaris or Solaris etc.