GCC 5.0 was released, the full support golang 1.4.2, but why not support GDC?


Look GCC 5 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes:
https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html

On 8 Apr 2015 04:30, "zoujiaqing via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> GCC 5.0 was released, the full support golang 1.4.2, but why not support
GDC?
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> Look GCC 5 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html

Go is the least interesting thing on that page, it took me two reads to spot it.  ;)

Libgccjit is far more interesting.

Am Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:25:52 +0200
schrieb "Iain Buclaw via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com>:

> On 8 Apr 2015 04:30, "zoujiaqing via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
> >
> > GCC 5.0 was released, the full support golang 1.4.2, but why not support
> GDC?
> >
> >
> > Look GCC 5 Release Series Changes, New Features, and Fixes: https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-5/changes.html
> 
> Go is the least interesting thing on that page, it took me two reads to spot it.  ;)
> 
> Libgccjit is far more interesting.

Libgccjit might totally change the way gdc is built towards
the modular approach LLVM uses. There are issues with the
package I maintain for Gentoo:
* Have to recompile all of gcc on an update to D
* Updates of gcc and D in lock-step
* Parallel installation of different D versions limited by
  number of minor versions of gcc (e.g. 4.8, 4.9)

-- 
Marco

Oh looks like it is not quite what I thought it would be. Still a nice alternative to LLVM JIT!

-- 
Marco

On 10 Apr 2015 01:25, "Marco Leise via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote:
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> Oh looks like it is not quite what I thought it would be. Still a nice alternative to LLVM JIT!
>

It's still alpha and though the api should not be broken from now onwards, it's still feature incomplete.  You could still probably implement a small C or Python JIT/AOT compiler with it though.