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reply Thomas Kuehne <thomas-dloop kuehne.thisisspam.cn> writes:
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Has anyone tried to write a minimalistic Phobos
and used the gcc tool chain to write a Palm program?

Just wondering if SuperWaba(http://superwaba.com.br) could be ported to
D. SuperWaba currently uses a mix of Java(without reflections) and C.

The Java part should be fairly simple to translate.
Parts of the C part could be either reused or removed(e.g. the GC).

Thomas


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Dec 16 2004
next sibling parent John Reimer <brk_6502 yahoo.com> writes:
Thomas Kuehne wrote:

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 Has anyone tried to write a minimalistic Phobos
 and used the gcc tool chain to write a Palm program?
 
 Just wondering if SuperWaba(http://superwaba.com.br) could be ported to
 D. SuperWaba currently uses a mix of Java(without reflections) and C.
 
 The Java part should be fairly simple to translate.
 Parts of the C part could be either reused or removed(e.g. the GC).
 
 Thomas
 
 
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I've asked about the possibility of D on Palm in the past, specifically 
the possibility of porting gdc over to the gcc cross compiler.

I know about superwaba and have played with it a little. I've never 
thought of using it with D.  That's sounds like a interesting concept! 
I'll have to take a look a superwaba again.

Later,

John
Dec 16 2004
prev sibling parent reply pragma <pragma_member pathlink.com> writes:
In article <ncg992-6k2.ln1 kuehne.cn>, Thomas Kuehne says...

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Has anyone tried to write a minimalistic Phobos
and used the gcc tool chain to write a Palm program?

Just wondering if SuperWaba(http://superwaba.com.br) could be ported to
D. SuperWaba currently uses a mix of Java(without reflections) and C.

The Java part should be fairly simple to translate.
Parts of the C part could be either reused or removed(e.g. the GC).

Thomas


My reccomendation is to take a look at the Ares project on dsource.org, and see
if you like what's going on over there.  If so, there may be room to consider
different targets for the library.  Granted, the library has a long way to go
before it's mature, but it has some (proposed) qualities that may be good for
palmtop implementations.

FYI, the team just recently split out the GC from phobos, which would make such
a porting job *much* easier.

- Pragma
Dec 17 2004
next sibling parent John Reimer <brk_6502 yahoo.com> writes:
pragma wrote:

 
 My reccomendation is to take a look at the Ares project on dsource.org, and see
 if you like what's going on over there.  If so, there may be room to consider
 different targets for the library.  Granted, the library has a long way to go
 before it's mature, but it has some (proposed) qualities that may be good for
 palmtop implementations.
 
 FYI, the team just recently split out the GC from phobos, which would make such
 a porting job *much* easier.
 
 - Pragma


Ares is an excellent project.  I really appreciate its goal.  Once it 
matures a bit, it should be the first library for serious consideration 
for this kind of thing.

-John
Dec 17 2004
prev sibling parent "=?iso-8859-1?Q?Robert_M._M=FCnch?=" <robert.muench robertmuench.de> writes:
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:34:39 +0000 (UTC), pragma  
<pragma_member pathlink.com> wrote:


 FYI, the team just recently split out the GC from phobos, which would  
 make such a porting job *much* easier.


Hi, that sounds interesting. So, D now works without a GC or a  
replacement? Would be nice for OS programming not to fiddle around with  
the GC in the beginning.

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Robert M. Münch
Management & IT Freelancer
http://www.robertmuench.de
Dec 19 2004