On 24 June 2013 18:38, Luca Saiu <posit...@gnu.org> wrote: > On 2013-06-24 at 19:14, Iain Buclaw wrote: > >> My talk at Dconf2013 can be bulleted into the following: >> >> - What is GDC? >> - A brief history of porting the D language to GCC. >> - D language and library support, including current challenges being faced. >> - Introduction to GCC, in particular an overview of the compilation >> process from GENERIC down to RTL and how things tie in with the D >> front end. >> - Taking advantage of the GCC backend. What features of GCC are >> leveraged by the D front end (eg: builtin functions, extended >> assembler) >> - Future goals and architecture support. > > Cool for me. If we have Philip's talk as well then part of your fourth > point might become redundant, but it's quite small fraction of the talk. > > Of course you can reuse slides. We all do :-). >
As I said, I can rehash some of what was gone over and perhaps focus more on challenges of representing the D language within GCC. (Eg: Delegates, Thunks, TLS symbols and D runtime...) >> Have registered myself. I'll have to confirm my availability. > > Oh, sorry. I'm marking your name as "to be confirmed" then. > No problem mate, I'll let you know as soon as possible. Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
