Porting gdc/dmd to Hurd

Dejan Lekic dejan.lekic at gmail.com
Wed Jun 17 17:16:45 UTC 2026


On Wednesday, 17 June 2026 at 14:12:25 UTC, yelninei wrote:
>  A lot of thanks to all the people here and especially Iain 
> Buclaw and Nicholas Wilson.
>
> Especially helpful was the importc_compare test for struct 
> sizes/layouts where I too eagerly copied the linux or BSD 
> versions.
>
> I also created PRs for gdc and ldc to add the bit of glue code 
> that should enable it to work there once they have a new enough 
> druntime.
>
> For bootstrapping I backported this back to gcc-11 and 
> gcc-14/15 which is how Ive been building dmd so far.
>
> Managing 3-4 variants of more or less the same giant patch was 
> definitely a challenge especially keeping them in sync while 
> they are constantly changing.

Thank you for doing this yelninei ! I do not use GNU/Hurd but I 
am sure those who do appreciate your work.


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