So what about -betterC flag?

Rel via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Tue Sep 8 02:58:22 PDT 2015


On Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 14:32:39 UTC, Laeeth Isharc 
wrote:
> On Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 12:56:48 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe 
> wrote:
>> On Saturday, 5 September 2015 at 10:51:23 UTC, Rel wrote:
>>> I remember that there was some buzz around undocumented 
>>> -betterC compiler flag that should allow people get away from 
>>> hard druntime dependencies and write bare metal code, drivers 
>>> or kernel modules in some limited D subset.
>>
>>
>> -betterC used to exist, not sure if it still does, but it does 
>> very little and I don't think it helps much; you're still 
>> basically on your own in making such code work right.
>
> switch still there.  don't know what it does, if anything.
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=betterC

I see, it seems that all that flag does is prevent module info 
generation, I don't really know if it may be helpful or not in 
using D as a "better C" (without druntime). But thanks!


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