On 26-05-2012 21:05, Brad Roberts wrote:
On 5/26/2012 5:06 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
On 26-05-2012 14:03, Trass3r wrote:
The compiler is able to cope. Have made some updates to the D runtime
and Phobos library to weed out any issues relating to such platforms
(NaCL is another system which uses 32bit pointers on x86_64 arch),
Should go into upstream druntime shouldn't it?
No, druntime is compiler-specific. Phobos is a different story.
I've always disagreed with this stance. _parts_ of druntime are specific to
the compiler/runtime interface, but MOST of
it isn't and shouldn't be compiler specific. The closer the various compilers'
runtime's are to the same the better the
ecosystem will be, imho.
So, I encourage pushing changes upstream.
Later,
Brad
The result is that contributors won't have a clue where to go with their
compiler- or arch-specific patches because upstream and downstream are
almost constantly out of sync. And it's unlikely that anyone wants to
actually spend the time on upstreaming the downstream druntime changes
in the first place...
Besides, upstreaming the downstream changes doesn't seem to have any
obvious gain: Upstream druntime is really only for DMD (x86-32/64) and a
few operating systems running on that architecture, and any downstream
changes are usually to support either the GDC compiler (think
__builtin_*) or to support architectures or operating systems that DMD
doesn't.
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Alex Rønne Petersen
a...@lycus.org
http://lycus.org
