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digitalmars.D.announce - Dr Callahan ports D compiler to OpenBSD

reply Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210320.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26520996#26531423

https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/m9xu8s/a_working_d_compiler_on_openbsd/

Thanks to Dr Brian Callahan!
Mar 21 2021
parent reply Brian <bcallah openbsd.org> writes:
On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 22:41:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210320.html

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26520996#26531423

 https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/m9xu8s/a_working_d_compiler_on_openbsd/

 Thanks to Dr Brian Callahan!


I don't have an HN or Reddit account so I'll reply here.

First, thanks. But second, all I really did was the last mile 
stuff. Lots of people did nearly all of the work before I came 
along, which I hope I made enough mention of in my blog post.

I've also opened a bug report for GDC: 
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99691
But it looks like Iain was already on it, so I suspect we really 
want to thank him more than me for the GDC parts!

(You also don't have to call me Dr. -- it's there just because 
it's my personal/professional website and I happen to be employed 
as an academic.)
Mar 21 2021
next sibling parent reply Johan <j j.nl> writes:
On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 23:14:36 UTC, Brian wrote:

 On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 22:41:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210320.html




Hi Brian,
   Very nice.

Seeing that pledge/unveil are declared in unistd.d, your work 
should probably land here:
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/core/sys/posix/unistd.d#L2556

Cheers,
   Johan
Mar 21 2021
next sibling parent Brian <bcallah openbsd.org> writes:
On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 23:56:15 UTC, Johan wrote:

 Seeing that pledge/unveil are declared in unistd.d, your work 
 should probably land here:
 https://github.com/dlang/druntime/blob/master/src/core/sys/posix/unistd.d#L2556


Yes, I think so. People who program on OpenBSD expect pledge and 
unveil to always be available, and so having them in druntime is 
better than a separate module.
Mar 21 2021
prev sibling parent Kagamin <spam here.lot> writes:
While we're at it, can I has SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags?
Mar 23 2021
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:
On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 23:14:36 UTC, Brian wrote:

 On Sunday, 21 March 2021 at 22:41:36 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:

 https://briancallahan.net/blog/20210320.html

 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26520996#26531423

 https://reddit.com/r/programming/comments/m9xu8s/a_working_d_compiler_on_openbsd/

 Thanks to Dr Brian Callahan!


 I don't have an HN or Reddit account so I'll reply here.

 First, thanks. But second, all I really did was the last mile 
 stuff. Lots of people did nearly all of the work before I came 
 along, which I hope I made enough mention of in my blog post.

 I've also opened a bug report for GDC: 
 https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99691
 But it looks like Iain was already on it, so I suspect we 
 really want to thank him more than me for the GDC parts!


Kai did the initial druntime/phobos bindings.  I fixed them after 
a number years of the port going stale, and removed pretty much 
all platform-specific bindings from phobos in the process (brk 
still remains, but I think it's better just to deprecate that 
experimental allocator).

The all non-gdc bits had been upstreamed with the last remants 
sitting uncommitted on a VM waiting for the last few failing 
tests of the testsuite to be fixed.

I think it would be a fair attribute Kai and I for the 95% that 
was enough to get ldc and gdc working respectively. It was only a 
matter of time before someone would port dmd as well. :-)
Mar 22 2021
parent Brian <bcallah openbsd.org> writes:
On Monday, 22 March 2021 at 07:27:22 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 I think it would be a fair attribute Kai and I for the 95% that 
 was enough to get ldc and gdc working respectively.


Sounds good to me!
Mar 22 2021
prev sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
No problem, Brian. I just assumed that since the article used Dr, that you 
preferred it.

It's a good idea to sign up on Reddit and HN, if only to help support your work 
and articles.
Mar 22 2021