Don wrote:
> With what you propose:
> Cross compilation is a _big_ problem. It is not always true that the
> source CPU is the same as the target CPU. The most trivial example,
> which applies already for DMD 64bit, is size_t.sizeof. Conditional
> compilation can magnify these differences. Different CPUs don't just
> need different backend code generation; they may be quite different in
> the semantic pass. I'm not sure that this is solvable.
>
> version(ARM)
> {
> immutable X = armSpecificCode(); // you want to run this on an X86???
> }
A very good point, Don. I cross compile D code quite often. (Host: x86_64-
pc-linux-gnu, Targets: i686-pc-linux-gnu and i686-pc-mingw32)
Second point is - if code uses lots of CTFE's (many of them may call each
other recursively) then what Gor proposes may *significantly* slow down
compilation time.
