DMD cross compiler

[Jacob Carlborg]

On Saturday, 1 September 2018 at 20:12:24 UTC, Manu wrote:
> I know there's been discussion on this before, I just want a 
> definitive reference.
>
> It looks like it would be relatively straight forward for DMD 
> to be a
> cross-compiler.
> A few version() statements could be runtime if's, and that's 
> pretty much it.
> When hacking on parts of DMD, I frequently make hacks that turn 
> such
> versions into runtime if's to test multiple targets from the 
> one dev
> workflow.
>
> It would be about 100 times more convenient to supply an arg, 
> than make hacks all over the code... so, why not?

Yeah, I don't see a reason why DMD should not be a 
cross-compiler. I've been thinking the same thing as well.

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/Jacob Carlborg