gdc – Tarik Billa

What library does ld option -lrt refer to (Bionic libc)?

July 19, 2023 by Tarik

When you see a -lsomething, the library name is libsomething. Doing a man librt says the following: NAME librt, libposix4 – POSIX.1b Realtime Extensions library SYNOPSIS cc [ flag… ] file… -lrt [ library… ] DESCRIPTION Functions in this library provide most of the interfaces specified by the POSIX.1b Realtime Extension. See stan- dards(5). Specifically, … Read more

DMD vs. GDC vs. LDC

April 6, 2023 by Tarik

DMD is the reference implementation, the backend and frontend are open source. The code generation quality is not that overwhelming. GDC and LDC are both based on the DMD frontend so it might take some time until a new version of the frontend is merged in. Since the backends they use are very mature and … Read more