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reply "Stephen" <denderix goolgemail.com> writes:
Hey there,

I'm considering learning D as a general purpose language.
But for that matter I would like to know how Poratble D is.
As far as I know only x86 and x86_64 are supported.
Can you tell me otherwise? What about SPARC and PowerPC for 
example?
If they are not supported yet, what do you think how long it will 
take until theye are?

Will D ever be usable for embeddet systems?

Thanks
Jul 11 2012
next sibling parent "Jakob Ovrum" <jakobovrum gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 11 July 2012 at 18:48:38 UTC, Stephen wrote:

 Hey there,

 I'm considering learning D as a general purpose language.
 But for that matter I would like to know how Poratble D is.
 As far as I know only x86 and x86_64 are supported.
 Can you tell me otherwise? What about SPARC and PowerPC for 
 example?
 If they are not supported yet, what do you think how long it 
 will take until theye are?

 Will D ever be usable for embeddet systems?

 Thanks


DMD supports x86, and x86-64 (except on Windows, where it only 
supports x86).

GDC supports all architectures the GCC backend can target.

LDC supports all architectures LLVM can target.

Both GCC and LLVM can target SPARC and PowerPC.
Jul 11 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> writes:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:48:37PM +0200, Stephen wrote:

 Hey there,
 
 I'm considering learning D as a general purpose language.
 But for that matter I would like to know how Poratble D is.
 As far as I know only x86 and x86_64 are supported.
 Can you tell me otherwise? What about SPARC and PowerPC for example?
 If they are not supported yet, what do you think how long it will
 take until theye are?


Although dmd currently only supports x86 and x86_64, gdc and ldc both
support a great variety of other architectures (basically all the
architectures that gcc/llvm support). I'm not sure if druntime has been
ported to all the available target platforms, though, so you might run
into some difficulty there.



 Will D ever be usable for embeddet systems?


[...]

That's the plan.


T

-- 
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about less and less. Eventually, you know everything about nothing.
Jul 11 2012
prev sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 11 July 2012 19:57, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:

 On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 08:48:37PM +0200, Stephen wrote:

 Hey there,

 I'm considering learning D as a general purpose language.
 But for that matter I would like to know how Poratble D is.
 As far as I know only x86 and x86_64 are supported.
 Can you tell me otherwise? What about SPARC and PowerPC for example?
 If they are not supported yet, what do you think how long it will
 take until theye are?


 Although dmd currently only supports x86 and x86_64, gdc and ldc both
 support a great variety of other architectures (basically all the
 architectures that gcc/llvm support). I'm not sure if druntime has been
 ported to all the available target platforms, though, so you might run
 into some difficulty there.


This is essentially the case.  D1 library was ported to all platforms
Debian support at least - D2  library needs work.


 Will D ever be usable for embeddet systems?


 [...]

 That's the plan.



It is indeed.  But I must emphasise that we will never support 16bit
systems, or any system that isn't able to support 64bit integer types.



Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Jul 11 2012
parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
On 7/11/2012 4:35 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 It is indeed.  But I must emphasise that we will never support 16bit
 systems, or any system that isn't able to support 64bit integer types.


Or some DSPs that have 32 bit types *only* (not byte addressible).
Jul 11 2012