Booting to D.

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-11-19 23:49, John Carter wrote:
> So this post...
>
> http://blog.theincredibleholk.org/blog/2013/11/18/booting-to-rust/
>
> ..is interesting.
>
> Why? Because it tackles one of the core reasons why C is hard to dislodge.
>
> Almost every CPU on the planet "Boots to C", perhaps with a very thin
> crust of assembler.
>
> To dislodge C in my domain (embedded systems), this would be a very
> interesting and effective challenge to take on.
>
>
> What would it take to "Boot to D"?
>
> Or put it another way...
>
> What base infrastructure does a D program rely on that the OS has
> already provided before we hit "main"?
>
> Typically things like stack setup, program load, register
> initialization, zero'ing .bss segments and copying .data segments into
> ram etc. etc.
>
> Sometime mmap or sbrk for heap management.
>
> What else, and where to look?

You can have a look that this kernel written in D:

https://github.com/xomboverlord/xomb

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg