Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Georg Wrede <georg.wr...@iki.fi> wrote:
Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
2009/4/29 Robert Fraser <fraseroftheni...@gmail.com>:
Weed wrote:
Is it possible to implement support for Google Android on the D?
Perhaps, but it'd be easier to implement support for D on the Google
Android
:-).
LDC might be able to generate .class files, which can be run through the
Android thingy to get them into a format gor which Google doesn't have to
pay Sun. The trick would be integrating D and Java's GCs. You can
probably
already get a *very* simple program which doesn't use the D runtime
working
by using LDC to generate a .bc, using the LLVM JVM backend to write out a
.class file and run it through the google thing. Not sure if anyone's
tried
it, though.
According to wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Android )
it should be possible to run native ARM code, even though it's not
officially supported by google.
It's probably possible to get a full D implementation, but someone
would just have to fix Tango on ARM ;)
I'd just hate to create statically linked programs on a small machine. Feels
like a massive waste of space.
Typically I'd think the apps would be less than a thousand lines of code,
and already having several tens of such binaries could either take a small
or a huge amount of memory.
LDC has supported shared libs (including a shared runtime) for quite a
while, of course I'm not sure about the state of PIC codegen in LLVM's
ARM backend, but I'd guess it's working.
It's been my dream ever since I started with D (oh boy, ages ago) to be
able to replace C as the preferred language for small gadgets. Maybe I
will see the day, after all!
