What's the status of the Linux port of D?  DLI's readme seems to indicate that it sucks and is not as good as the Windows version.

So, is 'D' reliable under Linux?

Mongryong Lee wrote:

> What's the status of the Linux port of D?  DLI's readme seems to indicate that it sucks and is not as good as the Windows version.
>
> So, is 'D' reliable under Linux?

I have been using it for a while.  It works pretty well, although it doesn't seem to link (I link with gcc instead).  Also, the GC isn't enabled.

Most of the time, it does well.  But it has a way of crashing on syntax errors, rather than handling them gracefully.  That's ok with me, since it is intended to just be a temporary D compiler until we can get a new compiler, written from scratch in D.  In other words, DLI is just the bootstrap compiler.

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I wonder why the original D compiler was not designed to output ansi C. This would have made porting to other platforms so much easier: a D compiler written in D would generate ansi C code that would be easy to compile nearly anywhere. Any idea why this approach was not used (even not for a simple bootstrap compiler)?

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"J.Aubourg" wrote:

> I wonder why the original D compiler was not designed to output ansi C. This would have made porting to other platforms so much easier: a D compiler written in D would generate ansi C code that would be easy to compile nearly anywhere. Any idea why this approach was not used (even not for a simple bootstrap compiler)?
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> -- Julian

Exceptions, primarily.  They are hard to implement in C.

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"Russ Lewis" <spamhole-2001-07-16@deming-os.org> wrote in message news:3E6EEA2A.29D607ED@deming-os.org...
> > I wonder why the original D compiler was not designed to output ansi C.
This
> > would have made porting to other platforms so much easier: a D compiler
written
> > in D would generate ansi C code that would be easy to compile nearly
anywhere.
> > Any idea why this approach was not used (even not for a simple bootstrap
> > compiler)?
> Exceptions, primarily.  They are hard to implement in C.

Inline assembler, too <g>. Also, the various thunks that get created.