On Monday, 13 January 2014 at 12:47:09 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 13 January 2014 21:40, Kai Nacke <[email protected]> wrote:
On Monday, 13 January 2014 at 05:04:46 UTC, Manu wrote:
On 12 January 2014 00:35, Kai Nacke <[email protected]> wrote:
On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find
any thread
about this. As things has progressed I wonder if Digital
Mars DMD should
move over to use LLVM instead of its own code generation
and compiler
framework.
As I see it with the small amount of contributors
D-language has, DMD
will never support anything beyond x86 as there are no
resources for
this.
Also, why spend time on recreating the the code generation
which has
already been done with LLVM? This enables this community to
focus on the
language which is the most important part as well as
supporting more and
future processor targets.
You currently can't get the best of all worlds in a single
compiler.
LLVM does not support exceptions on native Win32. (Same is
true for Win64
but I hope to change this.) LLVM does not support CodeView
debug symbols.
Not in the format embedded in object file and not as PDB.
In short, you loose the complete native Windows tool chain.
Is there any progress on any of these things BTW?
At some point, sooner or later, we're REALLY going to need a
performance
compiler on Windows...
My patch for exceptions on Win64 is finally in review. I hope
to commit it
soon.
The Google guys are adding COFF line number support right now.
Regards,
Kai
Oooohh yeah, this is exciting! :D
How about Win32? That's really important too, particularly
since DMD
doesn't support Win32 :/
Genuine question, I have never done any windows specific
development: Why is Win32 a concern? Where is the overlap between
requiring Win32 and high performance? Isn't 64 where it's at now?
Is it windows tablets/phones???
