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reply =?UTF-8?B?Ik5vcmRsw7Z3Ig==?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
Does GDC and/or LDC have sparc solaris backend support?

I'm trying to make my company use D and we have a bunch of legacy 
machines that unfortunately run on sparc-solaris 2.10.

/Per
Mar 18 2014
next sibling parent reply "andro" <my email.foo> writes:
On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 at 23:52:49 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
 Does GDC and/or LDC have sparc solaris backend support?

 I'm trying to make my company use D and we have a bunch of 
 legacy machines that unfortunately run on sparc-solaris 2.10.

 /Per
GCC has back end support for SPARC, it should not be a problem.
Mar 23 2014
parent =?UTF-8?B?Ik5vcmRsw7Z3Ig==?= <per.nordlow gmail.com> writes:
On Sunday, 23 March 2014 at 22:00:23 UTC, andro wrote:
 On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 at 23:52:49 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
 Does GDC and/or LDC have sparc solaris backend support?

 I'm trying to make my company use D and we have a bunch of 
 legacy machines that unfortunately run on sparc-solaris 2.10.

 /Per
GCC has back end support for SPARC, it should not be a problem.
What about exception handling? Isn't this the same struggle as with ARM support in GDC which just got into beta? /Per
Mar 24 2014
prev sibling parent "John Colvin" <john.loughran.colvin gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 18 March 2014 at 23:52:49 UTC, Nordlöw wrote:
 Does GDC and/or LDC have sparc solaris backend support?

 I'm trying to make my company use D and we have a bunch of 
 legacy machines that unfortunately run on sparc-solaris 2.10.

 /Per
It will take some work, unless someone's already done it. I would ask in the GDC/LDC groups.
Mar 23 2014