OpenEuphoria

Re: Bitten by a bug

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Oct 20, 2005
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Jason Gade wrote:
> The only thing that I would add to this is that mingw is a win32 port of gcc
> so it wouldn't *really* be like adding another compiler. It would just be
> making
> sure that mingw worked with the translator. 
> Doesn't the translator already work
> with djgpp? 

Yes, on DOS.

> I don't think that it would be that much more work.
> 
> I think it would be great to drop support for lcc and add support for Digital
> Mars C compiler, but I know that probably *is* a lot more work.

It's hard to say how much work it will be until you get half way
through it. There are lots of small incompatibilities among
C compilers. If a critical C library routine is missing or
works very differently, it can require a lot of time to work around it.
Things like dir() can be tough.
Then there are the calls from Euphoria to C which require intimate 
knowledge of the call stack etc. Sometimes the malloc's are very 
different which might require some drastic changes since Euphoria 
is a "power user" of malloc, i.e. it knows more about 
the internals of malloc than it really should. In general it means
adding lots of #ifdef's to code that is already packed with them.

Regards,
   Rob Craig
   Rapid Deployment Software
   http://www.RapidEuphoria.com