On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24-12-2011 17:20, Andrew Wiley wrote: >> >> On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Jacob Carlborg<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 2011-12-24 08:26, Andrew Wiley wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Steve Teale >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Now here's an interesting target for D - this little beast could sell >>>>> in >>>>> >>>>> millions, and could be the way that many youngsters start out as >>>>> programmers. >>>>> >>>>> Presumably LDC would be the quickest thing to get on there? >>>>> >>>>> Steve >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> GDC on ARM has been working reasonably well for a while now (although >>>> I get an ICE when building the latest trunk - still trying to come up >>>> with enough information for a bug report). There's one major bug that >>>> requires the section-anchors optimization to be disabled. >>>> >>>> Last I tried LDC on ARM, it built and segfaulted when building the >>>> standard library. GCC code generation for ARM is apparently >>>> significantly better than LLVM, so I haven't looked much farther into >>>> LDC. >>> >>> >>> >>> LLVM can't be that bad since it's good enough for Apple and they're >>> abandoning GCC in favor of Clang and LLVM. >>> >> >> I'm looking into it again, apparently it's improved dramatically on >> ARM in the last few years. The compiler itself builds, but Druntime >> needs some ARM-specific assembly. Working on that. > > > You may want to have a peek at GDC's druntime, as it is (mostly) ARM-ready. > Could probably lift some code from there. > > - Alex
If I wanted that, I'd have to dig into GCC's platform specific source (not GDC). Where pushing a thread's state onto the stack in GCC consists of: __builtin_unwind_init(); LLVM and DMD have to write some platform specific assembly. Still, I could probably find GCC's assembly definitions for ARM.
