• Mongryong Lee (3/3) Mar 01 2003 What's the status of the Linux port of D? DLI's readme seems to
• Russ Lewis (14/17) Mar 10 2003 I have been using it for a while. It works pretty well, although it
• J.Aubourg (6/6) Mar 11 2003 I wonder why the original D compiler was not designed to output ansi C. ...
• Russ Lewis (7/13) Mar 12 2003 Exceptions, primarily. They are hard to implement in C.
• Walter (6/12) Mar 13 2003 This

Mongryong Lee <Mongryong sympatico.ca> writes:

What's the status of the Linux port of D?  DLI's readme seems to 
indicate that it sucks and is not as good as the Windows version.

So, is 'D' reliable under Linux?

Russ Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> writes:

Mongryong Lee wrote:

 What's the status of the Linux port of D?  DLI's readme seems to
 indicate that it sucks and is not as good as the Windows version.

 So, is 'D' reliable under Linux?

I have been using it for a while.  It works pretty well, although it
doesn't seem to link (I link with gcc instead).  Also, the GC isn't
enabled.

Most of the time, it does well.  But it has a way of crashing on syntax
errors, rather than handling them gracefully.  That's ok with me, since
it is intended to just be a temporary D compiler until we can get a new
compiler, written from scratch in D.  In other words, DLI is just the
bootstrap compiler.

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J.Aubourg <J.Aubourg_member pathlink.com> writes:

I wonder why the original D compiler was not designed to output ansi C. This
would have made porting to other platforms so much easier: a D compiler written
in D would generate ansi C code that would be easy to compile nearly anywhere.
Any idea why this approach was not used (even not for a simple bootstrap
compiler)?

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Russ Lewis <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> writes:

"J.Aubourg" wrote:

 I wonder why the original D compiler was not designed to output ansi C. This
 would have made porting to other platforms so much easier: a D compiler written
 in D would generate ansi C code that would be easy to compile nearly anywhere.
 Any idea why this approach was not used (even not for a simple bootstrap
 compiler)?

 -- Julian

Exceptions, primarily.  They are hard to implement in C.

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"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16 deming-os.org> wrote in message
news:3E6EEA2A.29D607ED deming-os.org...
 I wonder why the original D compiler was not designed to output ansi C.


This
 would have made porting to other platforms so much easier: a D compiler


written
 in D would generate ansi C code that would be easy to compile nearly


anywhere.
 Any idea why this approach was not used (even not for a simple bootstrap
 compiler)?

 Exceptions, primarily.  They are hard to implement in C.

Inline assembler, too <g>. Also, the various thunks that get created.