Looks like Digital Mars C++ is on the front page of HN at the moment!

May 23, 2018

Walter Bright

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Dmitry Olshansky

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Walter Bright

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On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 01:18:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > > DigitalMars C/C++ Compiler (github.com) > 56 points by tomcam 3 hours ago | unvote | flag | hide | 10 comments Yay! Any thoughts about opening runtime library? > > https://news.ycombinator.com/news And it’s beyond 100+ now. Also I see that you have quite a reputation in compilers ;)

On 5/22/2018 9:38 PM, Dmitry Olshansky wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 01:18:43 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > Yay! Any thoughts about opening runtime library? Yes, I just didn't get around to it yet. I didn't think anyone was interested :-) >> https://news.ycombinator.com/news > > And it’s beyond 100+ now. Also I see that you have quite a reputation in compilers ;) It's been a great thread. Everyone was very nice. Now that it's gone from the front page, here's the direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17129678

On 05/23/2018 09:01 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > > It's been a great thread. Everyone was very nice. > > Now that it's gone from the front page, here's the direct link: > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17129678 Whoa, I didn't even realize D was now used in some of the DMC++ source. That's a very cool switch-around from when D was implemented entirely in C++. Must be very satisfying. "C++, now powered by D" :)

On 5/23/2018 7:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote: > Back on the front page with an apparent followup: > > Consider using Digital Mars C compiler (virtualbox.org) > 33 points by yuhong 3 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 14 comments > > https://news.ycombinator.com/news Direct link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17139305

On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 18:54:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: > On 5/23/2018 7:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote: >> Back on the front page with an apparent followup: >> >> Consider using Digital Mars C compiler (virtualbox.org) >> 33 points by yuhong 3 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 14 comments >> >> https://news.ycombinator.com/news > > Direct link: > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17139305 At last the Digital Mars stand C library sources. Maybe now things can be be fixed more easily, although win32 is dead now. Now snn has to be compiled for mscoff32 (so not possible with DMC, right ?) and generate DWARF2 debug info and finally GDB could be used under win32, giving a working, out of the box, MS-free, package, just like current one but with more coherent object type. Ahhh i was forgetting, the linker... Possible before 2020 ?

May 24, 2018

Re: Looks like Digital Mars C++ is on the front page of HN at the moment!

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On 5/24/2018 1:06 PM, Basile B. wrote:
> On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 18:54:41 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 5/23/2018 7:31 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Back on the front page with an apparent followup:
>>>
>>> Consider using Digital Mars C compiler (virtualbox.org)
>>> 33 points by yuhong 3 hours ago | flag | hide | past | web | favorite | 14 comments
>>>
>>> https://news.ycombinator.com/news
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>> Direct link:
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>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17139305
> 
> At last the Digital Mars stand C library sources.
> Maybe now things can be be fixed more easily, although win32 is dead now.
> 
> Now snn has to be compiled for mscoff32 (so not possible with DMC, right ?) and generate DWARF2 debug info and finally GDB could be used under win32, giving a working, out of the box, MS-free, package, just like current one but with more coherent object type.
> 
> Ahhh i was forgetting, the linker...
> 
> Possible before 2020 ?

Maybe. I was thinking about using DasBetterC for the DMC runtime library instead of C :-)

On 25/05/2018 8:10 AM, Walter Bright wrote: > Maybe. I was thinking about using DasBetterC for the DMC runtime library instead of C :-) That has been a desire for a bunch of us for a while now. Just because we /might/ be able to get it to 64bit.

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