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reply David Friedman <dvdfrdmn users.ess-eff.net> writes:
GDC is now on SourceForge: http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/.  The source for 
the new release can be downloaded now.  I will be adding binaries and a 
subversion repository.

Download here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154306

* Fixes
    o ICE on assignment arithmetic
    o Problems mixing D and assembler floating point operations
    o Mac OS X 10.2 build problems
    o The gdc driver no longer compiles C source as C++
    o Many others...
* Improvements
    o Updated to DMD 0.157
    o Support for PowerPC Linux
    o Partial support for SkyOS
    o Compiler can be relocated to another directory.

If you have sent e-mail and I have not responded yet, please try again.

David
May 26 2006
next sibling parent Carlos Santander <csantander619 gmail.com> writes:
David Friedman escribió:

 GDC is now on SourceForge: http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/.  The source for 
 the new release can be downloaded now.  I will be adding binaries and a 
 subversion repository.
 
 Download here:
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154306
 
 * Fixes
    o ICE on assignment arithmetic
    o Problems mixing D and assembler floating point operations
    o Mac OS X 10.2 build problems
    o The gdc driver no longer compiles C source as C++
    o Many others...
 * Improvements
    o Updated to DMD 0.157
    o Support for PowerPC Linux
    o Partial support for SkyOS
    o Compiler can be relocated to another directory.
 
 If you have sent e-mail and I have not responded yet, please try again.
 
 David


Great!

"gdc -v" says it's using DMD 0.149, but it does seem to be 0.157.
Also, I couldn't compile Mango on Linux for PowerPC, but I have to try to get a 
minimal case (unless someone does it first).

Thanks!

-- 
Carlos Santander Bernal
May 26 2006
prev sibling next sibling parent John Reimer <terminal.node gmail.com> writes:
David Friedman wrote:

 GDC is now on SourceForge: http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/.  The source for 
 the new release can be downloaded now.  I will be adding binaries and a 
 subversion repository.
 
 Download here:
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154306
 
 * Fixes
    o ICE on assignment arithmetic
    o Problems mixing D and assembler floating point operations
    o Mac OS X 10.2 build problems
    o The gdc driver no longer compiles C source as C++
    o Many others...
 * Improvements
    o Updated to DMD 0.157
    o Support for PowerPC Linux
    o Partial support for SkyOS
    o Compiler can be relocated to another directory.
 
 If you have sent e-mail and I have not responded yet, please try again.
 
 David


Thanks, David!

-JJR
May 27 2006
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Frank Benoit <keinfarbton nospam.xyz> writes:
Good to hear that GDC is absolutely active. Thanks.

Is it technically possible to build a gdc in D?
E.g with the sources of the dparser project?
May 27 2006
parent reply David Friedman <dvdfrdmn users.ess-eff.net> writes:
Frank Benoit wrote:

 Good to hear that GDC is absolutely active. Thanks.
 
 Is it technically possible to build a gdc in D?
 E.g with the sources of the dparser project?


It is possible.  I think interfacing the whole compiler directly to D 
would not be trivial, but writing most of the compiler in D (semantic 
processing) and a smaller part in C (generating GCC tree nodes) should 
be workable.

David
May 27 2006
parent reply Brad Roberts <braddr puremagic.com> writes:
On Sat, 27 May 2006, David Friedman wrote:


 Frank Benoit wrote:

 Good to hear that GDC is absolutely active. Thanks.
 
 Is it technically possible to build a gdc in D?
 E.g with the sources of the dparser project?


 
 It is possible.  I think interfacing the whole compiler directly to D would
 not be trivial, but writing most of the compiler in D (semantic processing)
 and a smaller part in C (generating GCC tree nodes) should be workable.
 
 David


Though, that means an even longer, harder, upgrade path as dmd is 
upgraded.  Right now, gdc uses dmd almost directly, and with some time and 
effort, merging gdc's patches back to dmd will make that even easier.  By 
having to go and update a d implementation of dmd before gdc can use it, 
the work just gets harder with little gain.  Now, if DMD were to convert 
to D, thus using itself to build itself, then I can see the benefits.

I can see some benefits to moving the implementation to D, but there's an 
awful lot of costs that seem to me to greatly how way the benefits.

Do you see benefits that justify the costs that I'm missing?

Later,
Brad
May 27 2006
parent reply Frank Benoit <keinfarbton nospam.xyz> writes:
 I can see some benefits to moving the implementation to D, but there's an 
 awful lot of costs that seem to me to greatly how way the benefits.
 
 Do you see benefits that justify the costs that I'm missing?



I thought about that the code would be more attractive to contributors.
Everybody who has interest in gdc is interested in coding in D. So it
would be nice to have gdc in D.
New technics can be tested, using D and D libraries.
And dparser would always be up to date and verified in practice.
I am sure, the time will come and dmd source will switch to D.
May 28 2006
parent Markus Dangl <danglm in.tum.de> writes:
Frank Benoit schrieb:

 I can see some benefits to moving the implementation to D, but there's an 
 awful lot of costs that seem to me to greatly how way the benefits.

 Do you see benefits that justify the costs that I'm missing?


 
 
 I thought about that the code would be more attractive to contributors.
 Everybody who has interest in gdc is interested in coding in D. So it
 would be nice to have gdc in D.
 New technics can be tested, using D and D libraries.
 And dparser would always be up to date and verified in practice.
 I am sure, the time will come and dmd source will switch to D.


Maybe one could have it in parallel - so you could be experimenting, but 
of course you'd have to do most of the bugfixes two times. But maybe 
it's better to start it off as a parallel, experimental development, 
still having the "direct" dmd interface as default.
May 28 2006
prev sibling next sibling parent Chad J <gamerChad _spamIsBad_gmail.com> writes:
David Friedman wrote:

 GDC is now on SourceForge: http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/.  The source for 
 the new release can be downloaded now.  I will be adding binaries and a 
 subversion repository.
 
 Download here:
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154306
 
 * Fixes
    o ICE on assignment arithmetic
    o Problems mixing D and assembler floating point operations
    o Mac OS X 10.2 build problems
    o The gdc driver no longer compiles C source as C++
    o Many others...
 * Improvements
    o Updated to DMD 0.157
    o Support for PowerPC Linux
    o Partial support for SkyOS
    o Compiler can be relocated to another directory.
 
 If you have sent e-mail and I have not responded yet, please try again.
 
 David


Awesome, Thanks!

I'll be merging all of my WinCE stuff into this if all goes well.  I 
have managed to get gphobos to compile for arm-wince gdc 0.17, but there 
are linking problems at the moment.
May 27 2006
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Dejan Lekic <dejan nu6.org> writes:
Mr. Friedman,
Your work is _GREATLY_ apriciated throughout whole D community. I can 
only write THANKS YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for your work!

Kind regards

Dejan Lekic
May 29 2006
parent Walter Bright <newshound digitalmars.com> writes:
Dejan Lekic wrote:

 
 Mr. Friedman,
 Your work is _GREATLY_ apriciated throughout whole D community. I can 
 only write THANKS YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for your work!
 
 Kind regards
 
 Dejan Lekic


I agree completely. David's help to all of us has been invaluable.
May 30 2006
prev sibling parent Fredrik Olsson <peylow gmail.com> writes:
David Friedman skrev:

 GDC is now on SourceForge: http://dgcc.sourceforge.net/.  The source for 
 the new release can be downloaded now.  I will be adding binaries and a 
 subversion repository.
 
 Download here:
 http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=154306
 
 * Fixes
    o ICE on assignment arithmetic
    o Problems mixing D and assembler floating point operations
    o Mac OS X 10.2 build problems
    o The gdc driver no longer compiles C source as C++
    o Many others...
 * Improvements
    o Updated to DMD 0.157
    o Support for PowerPC Linux
    o Partial support for SkyOS
    o Compiler can be relocated to another directory.
 
 If you have sent e-mail and I have not responded yet, please try again.
 
 David


Thank you! PowerPC Linux is most welcome.
You should know you work is much appreciated!

// Fredrik
May 31 2006