Apple is officially moving away from Intel to a custom Arm chip

[Steven Schveighoffer]

On 6/24/20 4:16 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 at 17:19:00 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
>> On 6/24/20 12:40 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>> GCC still only supports powerpc, i386, or x86_64 darwin.  I imagine 
>>> there'll be a little nudge in the direction of getting ARM support 
>>> soon, but not during the current development cycle for 11.0
>>>
>>
>> Surely you mean GDC, not GCC?
>>
> 
> GDC only enforces that language semantics are adhered to.  It's GCC 
> (back-end) that takes care of the target support.  I imagine library 
> support in druntime should mostly be there, as LDC already has LLVM 
> support for arm-darwin.

Sorry, I think I was confused, I thought you meant that GCC cannot 
target ARM, but I think now you mean ARM on darwin?

-Steve