Digital Mars - D.gnu - gcc tree structure

↑ ↓ ← → "Steven Shaw" <steven_shaw iprimus.com.au> writes:

I found a link to some stuff about the GCC tree structure:

    http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~wendling/tree.html

As I understand it, the opend effort is building the glue to take the result
of Walter's D front-end and
output a GCC tree structure. Right? Or is it supposed to produce a GCC rtl
structure directly?

BTW, I've spent the last couple of weekends trying to get debian installed
on my laptop (unfortuanately
my one and only computer at the moment). Looks like I'll end up at a local
user group to get it right
in Saturday week. In the meantime what is the best way to come up to speed?
What's a good read?

Cheers, Steve.

Aug 02 2002

↑ ↓ ← → Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:

Steven Shaw wrote:

 I found a link to some stuff about the GCC tree structure:

     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~wendling/tree.html

 As I understand it, the opend effort is building the glue to take the result
 of Walter's D front-end and
 output a GCC tree structure. Right? Or is it supposed to produce a GCC rtl
 structure directly?


The approach is to build a GCC tree structure and submit it to the GCC back-end
for code generation.

 BTW, I've spent the last couple of weekends trying to get debian installed
 on my laptop (unfortuanately
 my one and only computer at the moment). Looks like I'll end up at a local
 user group to get it right
 in Saturday week. In the meantime what is the best way to come up to speed?
 What's a good read?


Try something else:
My personal preference is BSD, not Linux
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/
http://www.netbsd.org/

RedHat and SuSe Linux seem to be pretty good too.

Jan

Aug 02 2002

↑ ↓ ← → "Steven Shaw" <steven_shaw iprimus.com.au> writes:

"Jan Knepper" <jan smartsoft.cc> wrote in message
news:3D4B66C8.1DA5D751 smartsoft.cc...
 Steven Shaw wrote:

 I found a link to some stuff about the GCC tree structure:

     http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~wendling/tree.html

 As I understand it, the opend effort is building the glue to take the




 of Walter's D front-end and
 output a GCC tree structure. Right? Or is it supposed to produce a GCC




 structure directly?


 The approach is to build a GCC tree structure and submit it to the GCC


 for code generation.


Great. What's the best way to come up to speed (without actually having a
working development environment)?

 BTW, I've spent the last couple of weekends trying to get debian




 on my laptop (unfortuanately
 my one and only computer at the moment). Looks like I'll end up at a




 user group to get it right
 in Saturday week. In the meantime what is the best way to come up to




 What's a good read?


 Try something else:
 My personal preference is BSD, not Linux
 http://www.freebsd.org/
 http://www.openbsd.org/
 http://www.netbsd.org/


How come?
Any chance it would be easier to install on a laptop?

 RedHat and SuSe Linux seem to be pretty good too.


I've already gave Mandrake a good try a while back. I then tried Progeny
which is supposed to be a no-brainer install derived from Debian. It's was
no good. I just figured that it would be best to just keep trying with
Debian until I knew enough to get it right. At the moment it's Windows
XP/NTFS that are being the most difficult. The first time I turned up to the
user-group to install Debian it took >8 hours to defrag the hdd! There
wasn't much time left after that.

Cheers, Steve.

Aug 03 2002

↑ ↓ ← → user domain.invalid writes:

Steven Shaw wrote:
Try something else:
My personal preference is BSD, not Linux
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/
http://www.netbsd.org/


 
 How come?
 Any chance it would be easier to install on a laptop?


Maybe, FreeBSD 4.5 installed on my notebook (Dell INSPIRON 4100)
via an internet connection with 2 downloaded floppy images was a 
piece of cake.

See http://www.freebsd.org

 
 
RedHat and SuSe Linux seem to be pretty good too.


 
 I've already gave Mandrake a good try a while back. I then tried Progeny
 which is supposed to be a no-brainer install derived from Debian. It's was
 no good. I just figured that it would be best to just keep trying with
 Debian until I knew enough to get it right. At the moment it's Windows
 XP/NTFS that are being the most difficult. The first time I turned up to the
 user-group to install Debian it took >8 hours to defrag the hdd! There
 wasn't much time left after that.
 
 Cheers, Steve.

Aug 03 2002

↑ ↓ ← → Jan Knepper <jan smartsoft.cc> writes:

 As I understand it, the opend effort is building the glue to take the




 of Walter's D front-end and
 output a GCC tree structure. Right? Or is it supposed to produce a GCC




 structure directly?


 The approach is to build a GCC tree structure and submit it to the GCC


 for code generation.


 working development environment)?


Do not know, I have not worked without a working development environment for
over 15 years. You would have to be able to look at sources and docco.

 BTW, I've spent the last couple of weekends trying to get debian




 on my laptop (unfortuanately
 my one and only computer at the moment). Looks like I'll end up at a




 user group to get it right
 in Saturday week. In the meantime what is the best way to come up to




 What's a good read?


 Try something else:
 My personal preference is BSD, not Linux
 http://www.freebsd.org/
 http://www.openbsd.org/
 http://www.netbsd.org/


 How come?
 Any chance it would be easier to install on a laptop?


FreeBSD never gave me any trouble on any laptop (notebook).
Nor on any desktop by the way...
First check if your hardware is supported though (especially PCCard and CardBus
cards!)

 RedHat and SuSe Linux seem to be pretty good too.


 I've already gave Mandrake a good try a while back. I then tried Progeny
 which is supposed to be a no-brainer install derived from Debian. It's was
 no good. I just figured that it would be best to just keep trying with
 Debian until I knew enough to get it right. At the moment it's Windows
 XP/NTFS that are being the most difficult. The first time I turned up to the
 user-group to install Debian it took >8 hours to defrag the hdd! There
 wasn't much time left after that.


Yeah, that is the one thing about XP I do not like. Sometimes when I restart my
system it is busy for a while too to chkdsk the HDD.
It takes about 10 minutes though I think...

Jan

Aug 03 2002