GDC activity
by Leandro Lucarella on 2010- 08- 10 01:21 (updated on 2010- 08- 10 01:21)- with 0 comment(s)
There is a lot of activity lately in the GDC world, both the repository and the mailing list (mostly closed bug reports notification).
The reborn of GDC is a courtesy of Vincenzo Ampolo (AKA goshawk) and Michael P. (I'm sorry, I couldn't find his last name), but it received a big boost lately since Iain Buclaw (apparently from Ubuntu, judging from his e-mail address) got commit access to the repository in July.
They are working in updating both the DMD front-end and the GCC back-end and judging from the commits, the front-end is updated to DMD 1.062 and 2.020 (they are working on Druntime integration now) and the back-end works with GCC 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 is in the works.
Really great news! Thanks for the good work!
Google's Go will be part of GCC
by Leandro Lucarella on 2010- 01- 28 14:40 (updated on 2010- 01- 28 14:40)- with 0 comment(s)
Wow! Google's Go (remember there is another Go) programming language front-end for GCC has been accepted for merging into GCC 4.5.
Just when there was some discussion (started by Jerry Quinn [*]) in D on how the DMD front-end could be pushed to be merged in GCC too, but DigitalMars (Walter) doesn't want to give away the copyright of his front-end (they are exploring some alternative options though). Maybe the inclusion of Google's Go makes Walter think harder for a solution to the legal problems :).
| [*] | He reported a lot of bugs in the language specification because he was planning to start a new D front-end, which can be donated to the FSF for inclusion in GCC. |
Link Time Optimization
by Leandro Lucarella on 2009- 10- 10 18:34 (updated on 2009- 10- 10 18:34)- with 0 comment(s)
The upcoming LLVM 2.6 will include a plug-in for Gold to implement Link Time Optimization (LTO) using LLVM's LibLTO. There is a similar project for GCC, merged into the main trunk about a week ago. It will be available in GCC 4.5.
This is all fairly new, and will be not enabled by default in LLVM (I don't know what about GCC), but it will add a lot of new optimization oportunities in the future.
So people using LDC and GDC will probably be able to enjoy LTO in a near future =)
GDC resurrection
by Leandro Lucarella on 2009- 10- 05 14:31 (updated on 2009- 10- 05 14:31)- with 0 comment(s)
About a month ago, the GDC newsgroup started to get some activity when Michael P. and Vincenzo Ampolo started working on updating GCD. Yesterday they announced that they successfully merged the DMD frontend 1.038 and 2.015, and a new repository for GDC. They will be hanging on #d.gdc if you have any questions or want to help out.
So great news for the D ecosystem! Kudos for this two brave men! =)