htod, no version for Linux?

Stewart Gordon smjg_1998 at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 18 11:20:28 PDT 2010


Walter Bright wrote:
> Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> On 2010-08-17 21:54, Walter Bright wrote:
<snip>
>>> No. The problem is it is built out of the DM C compiler, which does not
>>> parse gcc extensions found in Linux.

Cross-platform compatibility is a separate issue from compatibility with 
vendor-specific extensions to the language.  Besides, there's a version 
of GCC (MinGW) for Windows as well.

>> How about the rest of the language or is the gcc extensions used in 
>> too many headers for htod to be useful ?
> 
> I don't know how hard the problem is. I haven't spent any time 
> attempting to make it work on linux.

I'd expect a program like this to be platform agnostic.

Stewart.


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