If you want something along the lines of DDL, but for D2.x and Phobos, please check out http://www.britseyeview.com/dml/.

Very much work in progress.

On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:45:08 -0400
Steve Teale <steve.teale@britseyeview.com> wrote:

> If you want something along the lines of DDL, but for D2.x and Phobos, please check out http://www.britseyeview.com/dml/.
> 
> Very much work in progress.
> 

Interesting. I really liked ddl so good to see it being kept alive.

Steve,

This is very interesting, and pertinent to things I want to do with D.

I notice you talk about removing all but OMF support.  OMF is typically used on Windows-only.  To support Linux, it may be necessary to support Linux (it may not, but then you *cannot* use any functions not defined in phobos .o's, afaik.)

Also, it strikes me that the example seems needlessly long (why no exceptions for failures, they seem like something you wouldn't expect?)

How interested are you in getting this working on Linux?

Also, from your documentation, getting around (5) on the OS level is the right way (elsewise you will run into the NX bit)... for Windows, I think the right way is to VirtualAlloc() it, then write to it, then VirtualProtect() it so it's now executable but not writable anymore.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa366553.aspx

On Linux, it's done with mprotect() and PROT_EXEC afaik.  Basically the same idea.

-[Unknown]


Steve Teale wrote:
> If you want something along the lines of DDL, but for D2.x and Phobos, please check out http://www.britseyeview.com/dml/.
> 
> Very much work in progress.
>