TLS + LDC + Android (ARM) = FAIL

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Wed, 01 Nov 2017 18:32:37 +0000
schrieb Igor Shirkalin <mathsoft at inbox.ru>:

> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 18:28:12 UTC, Johannes Pfau 
> wrote:
> > Am Wed, 01 Nov 2017 17:42:22 +0000
> > schrieb David Nadlinger <code at klickverbot.at>:
> >  
> >> On Wednesday, 1 November 2017 at 17:30:05 UTC, Iain Buclaw 
> >> wrote:  
> >> > [...]  
> >> 
> >> Or quite possibly fewer, depending on what one understands 
> >> "platform" and "support" to mean. ;)
> >> 
> >> What is the state of GDC on Android/ARM – has anyone been 
> >> using it recently?
> >> 
> >>   — David
> >>   
> >
> > ARM: Fine. Android: probably won't work well. AFAIK we're only 
> > missing emulated TLS / GC integration, so most test will pass 
> > but real apps will crash because of GC memory corruption. I 
> > guess I should finally get back to fixing that problem ;-) OTOH 
> > Android doesn't even support GCC anymore,  
> 
> > so I don't really see much benefit in maintaining GDC Android 
> > support.
> > -- Johannes  
> 
> That's too bad. I'd do it here for food.
> 
> - Igor
> 

I understand that D support for Android is important. I just think that
if google now supports only LLVM for Android, focusing on a LLVM based
compiler such as LDC is a more reasonable way to support Android.


-- Johannes