The issue with D...

[Basile B.]

On Sunday, 3 February 2019 at 15:19:03 UTC, Ecstatic Coder wrote:
>> 0.93% have cpus with only 1 core in it. Really shows how 
>> people just hold on to their CPU. Would be interesting to see 
>> what CPUs are 32-bit and 64-bit Vs. the OS that are 32-bit, 
>> but they don't provide that information for CPUs.
>>
>> It's kind of funny there is someone that would argue that the 
>> Windows version of DMD should target 32-bit. This is why 
>> Windows is so horrible, people that don't understand or care 
>> about the platform making decisions for it. What makes more 
>> sense is for the default to be based on the host's OS version, 
>> like what LDC does. Doesn't make sense to compile 64-bit on a 
>> 32-bit OS as you won't be able to run the program. Which is 
>> probably what most people are going to try to do.
>
> +1

Your message doesn't include the author you quote, but i think he 
referred to my previous message.

"there is someone that would argue that the Windows version of 
DMD should target 32-bit"

What i meant is that

- DMD32 should target 32 bits binary by default (this is the case)
- DMD64 should target 64 bits binary by default.

Now the yikes is that there's >>no DMD64 officially distributed 
for windows<<.
And now that -m64 works without the MS build tools, maybe this 
DMD64 can be released officially ?