On 14 November 2014 06:21, Joakim via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 13:59:32 UTC, Wyatt wrote: >> >> On Thursday, 13 November 2014 at 08:50:29 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote: >>> >>> >>> So, how to write a source-to-source compiler from CS to D…? ;-) >> >> >> I think it would be more useful would be to go the other way around for >> targeting Windows Phone. Or rather, it would be if anyone actually used WP. >> (Going after Microsoft's also-ran mobile OS isn't particularly compelling >> when our story for targeting Android is still in such a dire state.) > > > Dire state? All druntime/phobos tests pass on Android/x86, except for > std.datetime: > > http://wiki.dlang.org/Build_DMD_for_Android > > OK, that's not ARM that everybody cares about, but that just means combining > an ARM backend from ldc or gdc and the existing linux/ARM and Android > support in druntime/phobos, then hacking around the lack of native TLS on > Android. gdc supposedly supports emulated TLS, so all the pieces should be
Just missing a piece of runtime that ties emuTLS with the D GC. Currently there's a deadlock situation between the GC allocating new memory, and the emuTLS layer adding a new root for the GC to scan. Should be trivial to make it work, but I haven't yet got back to investing time in it. Iain.
