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!

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.)

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

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.

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. :-)

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!

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.

While we're at it, can I has SOCK_CLOEXEC and SOCK_NONBLOCK flags?