On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 12:07:35 UTC, Flamaros wrote:
On Tuesday, 11 February 2014 at 04:19:12 UTC, Daniel Murphy
wrote:
"Xavier Bigand" wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Firstly is there some progress on the DDMD project or maybe
an other D boostrap?
The old ddmd project is pretty much dead AFAIK
(http://www.dsource.org/projects/ddmd) and was never up to
date with the current compiler.
For about a year I've been working on automatically converting
the compiler source from C++ to D.
The conversion has produced a working compiler on
win32/linux32/linux64 (other platforms need trivial patches)
that compiles druntime/phobos/the test suite without errors.
The current effort is around cleaning up the C++ source to
produce higher quality D code. The next major step is to
actually switch development to the D version.
Outstanding patches:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980
Conversion tool:
https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2
You can see some of the recent patches (marked DDMD) here:
https://github.com/yebblies?tab=contributions&period=monthly
There is a lot of thread and debate around the GC of D, I
interrogate me on the capacity of a project like DDMD to
prove to every D users that the GC is perfectly usable for
system applications. If not it will certainly be improve
during the DDMD development to a point can satisfy almost
everybody?
There are no planned GC modifications for the DDMD project.
It may result in some compiler devs taking more of an interest
in the GC.
That the idea. In all cases we need some proof of the validity
of having a GC in a system language.
It has already been proven by Oberon, Modula-3 and Sing# among
others.
http://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/ProjectOberon/
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/Wcsss96m3os.pdf
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/Singularity/
The Oberon one, as even used by ETHZ employees as workstations in
mid-90's.
That no OS vendor pushed a mainstream OS with them is another
matter.
--
Paulo
