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reply "Shadow_exe" <shadow_exe ukr.net> writes:
Good day.
Would like to ask a question to the developers of the language:
Is the development of a compiler D under the ARM or is at least 
in the plans?
Aug 28 2012
next sibling parent reply 1100110 <10equals2 gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:23 -0500, Shadow_exe <shadow_exe ukr.net> wrote:


 Good day.
 Would like to ask a question to the developers of the language:
 Is the development of a compiler D under the ARM or is at least in the  
 plans?


The D specification states that 16bit or below will not be supported.
DMD is a nogo for ARM right now, so take a look at LDC or GDC

GDC https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC
This also has a bitbucket, which has nice compiling instructions.
https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Home

LDC is also on github, I trust you can find it.
I do not know anything about it's support.

I believe the old site(bitbucket gdc) has information on building on ARM,  
and for android specifically.
Mostly in the bug reports.

It'll most likely be a bit of work, but I believe there is precedent if  
you look.

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Aug 28 2012
parent reply "MattCoder" <mattcoder hotmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at 10:53:17 UTC, 1100110 wrote:

 On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:23 -0500, Shadow_exe 
 <shadow_exe ukr.net> wrote:

 The D specification states that 16bit or below will not be 
 supported.
 DMD is a nogo for ARM right now, so take a look at LDC or GDC


But I think the ARM main processors are all 32 bit.

http://www.arm.com/products/processors/index.php

According the website: "The 32-bit ARM instruction set is based 
on RISC principles..."

And this is a good question since ARM is widely used. So I think 
Walter and other guys should take a closely look on it. (if they 
don't yet).
Aug 28 2012
next sibling parent 1100110 <10equals2 gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:23:11 -0500, MattCoder <mattcoder hotmail.com>  
wrote:


 On Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at 10:53:17 UTC, 1100110 wrote:

 On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:23 -0500, Shadow_exe <shadow_exe ukr.net>  
 wrote:

 The D specification states that 16bit or below will not be supported.
 DMD is a nogo for ARM right now, so take a look at LDC or GDC


 But I think the ARM main processors are all 32 bit.

 http://www.arm.com/products/processors/index.php

 According the website: "The 32-bit ARM instruction set is based on RISC  
 principles..."

 And this is a good question since ARM is widely used. So I think Walter  
 and other guys should take a closely look on it. (if they don't yet).


I don't know a lot about the topic, so I thought I'd throw it out there  
and let people make of it what they will.

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Aug 28 2012
prev sibling parent 1100110 <10equals2 gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:23:11 -0500, MattCoder <mattcoder hotmail.com>  
wrote:


 On Tuesday, 28 August 2012 at 10:53:17 UTC, 1100110 wrote:

 On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:23 -0500, Shadow_exe <shadow_exe ukr.net>  
 wrote:

 The D specification states that 16bit or below will not be supported.
 DMD is a nogo for ARM right now, so take a look at LDC or GDC


 But I think the ARM main processors are all 32 bit.

 http://www.arm.com/products/processors/index.php

 According the website: "The 32-bit ARM instruction set is based on RISC  
 principles..."

 And this is a good question since ARM is widely used. So I think Walter  
 and other guys should take a closely look on it. (if they don't yet).


Also I have no idea how old or out of date this is, but there might be  
some info.
https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/GDC%20on%20Android
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Aug 28 2012
prev sibling parent Jordi Sayol <g.sayol yahoo.es> writes:
Al 28/08/12 12:27, En/na Shadow_exe ha escrit:

 Good day.
 Would like to ask a question to the developers of the language:
 Is the development of a compiler D under the ARM or is at least in the plans?
 


GDC and LDC are both available for ARM processors on the last Debian stable.

http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/gdc
http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/ldc

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Aug 28 2012