"Chad J" <chadjoan@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > > Bummer, no commits in the last 3 months or so. >
It was never a serious project unfortunately, just an experiment. > At any rate, I almost wonder if I can compile the output C code on the > OpenVMS system at work. I have a project in C I work on from time to > time, but it's an uncomfortable (to say the least) environment to work > with. There is stuff like this: > http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/Languages-and-Scripting/How-do-I-get-C-program-tracebacks-to-print-SOURCE-line-numbers/td-p/5570015 > If I had DMD with C-backend at my disposal, then maybe I could instrument > it with a calling convention that gives me exception handling and proper > debug information. Then I'd also get arrays and various other really nice > D features, even with just the basics. I wouldn't bother getting the GC > to work, but it'd make me consider implementing some kind of reference > counting. Even without ref counting I'd have way more at that point than > what I have currently with straight C code. > > And if I /could/ get reference counting, and if the backend were solid > enough, then the thing could probably be used for writing games. I'd have > the ability to output extremely portable C code to pretty much any target > except the web, and there's the JS backend for that. Very enticing! > It is a loooong way from being able to do that. Your best bet is probably to try and configure gdc or ldc to output c or compiled code for your platform. Completing MicroD would require porting most of druntime as well. > I wonder what it would take to get this sort of thing merged into > mainline. A huge amount of work.
