On 6/18/2012 11:10 AM, Adam Wilson wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 10:50:44 -0700, Walter Bright <[email protected]>
wrote:
On 6/17/2012 3:34 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
1. DMD can only output OMF binaries
2. DMD cannot output 64bit code for Windows
3. DMD is not compatible with the MSVC linker or runtime
I intend to fix all of those, at least for 64 bit Windows, in the near term.
Does this somewhat vague statement meant that we are getting COFF support in the
near term?
Yes, because that is necessary for MSVC linker compatibility.
Because if so, I have some serious plans for source embedding in
custom sections. The only thing blocking it is the fact that OMF doesn't support
custom sections. Once the source is embedded in libraries, we can finally
jettison DI files once and for all! Also would it be possible at this point to
clean up the backend such that we have a clean interface for interacting with
object files during their construction, given that with COFF, all object format
wills be roughly feature equal?
Probably not, though it will be better.
Object generation is an unholy disaster of
IFDEF's and my brain has melted every time I try to venture into it; but if we
have a clean interface for interacting with them it would make it significantly
easier to add things like custom sections, which in turn will open up a plethora
of new options, including source embedding.
Yeah, me too. But fixing that is not so easy.
