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8126 :: Embarcadero C++ and bcc target - change old or create new

• adrianv (orginal) [2021-06-17T10:10:39+02:00] view original

  Hi, I am obviously one of the few (=1) people which use the actual Embarcadero C++ :).

  It is now a Clang compiler with some Embarcadero specialities. Therefore it compiles most of the nim generated C or C++ code (I can boot compile the nim compiler with it). For this I had to introduce some when defined ... , because Embarcadero still uses some function names without leading underscore in its std lib (at less than 5 locations as far as I found out).

  Since Embarcadero C++ is the successor of the Borland C++ I am wondering what would be the better way:

  • change the existing bcc target to use the new compiler. This would make it impossible to use the classic Borland C++ with nim, because Embarcadero C++ is more Clang than BCC. But I doubt that you will get any compilable code with for an old BCC - never tried.
  • use the clang target for it and use a different define for it (that's what I am currently do - compile with --cc:clang and -d:clangBcc and give the name for compiler and linker). I don't like the name clangBcc for the define - any suggestions welcome.

  Personally I think the BCC target is not useful any more and should be removed completely (Is anyone using it? - please hands up). Making a new target for Embarcadero would be useless because Clang works - I only need to patch the standard library here and there and introduce a new define (name?).

  Thoughts ?

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• Araq (orginal) [2021-06-17T10:59:59+02:00] view original

  Feel free to change the existing "bcc" to mean "Embarcadero C++". Including the --define:bcc. I agree that most likely nobody will mind. :-)

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• adrianv (orginal) [2021-06-17T11:04:32+02:00] view original

  ok - than that way

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