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Re: Merging gdc (GNU D Compiler) into gcc

From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at gmail dot com>
To: Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu dot com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 12:36:53 -0700
Subject: Re: Merging gdc (GNU D Compiler) into gcc
References: <CABOHX+dzM9GCCBX5G-yyenya2rW89p+2X1=YUWXrTssmaQgJ8g@mail.gmail.com> <mcrsjn8q2gi.fsf@coign.corp.google.com> <CABOHX+f63imd7rkTSTR+N0p2_KPttn4gED-pxx0qfFiSyaPjAQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> These patches address two areas of the D language:
> 1) D calling convention.
> 2) Naked functions on i386 and x86_64
>
> Some work would need to be done on naked functions at least first so
> that changes required are only to gcc/config. I would be grateful if I
> could get pointed in the right direction for implementing naked as a
> function attribute for i386 so all frontends could benefit.

Does D really require a new calling convention?  Also does it really
require naked support?  I think naked support is a bad idea and people
who require naked support should be writing an assembly function
wrapper.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

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