On 04/29/2012 01:53 AM, Daniel Murphy wrote:
"Chad J"<chadjoan@__spam.is.bad__gmail.com> wrote in message
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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.
I was afraid you might say that.
Thanks for the input!
