D compiler as part of GCC

[Steve Teale]

On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:25:11 -0500, Jerry Quinn wrote:

> Steve Teale Wrote:
> 
>> > In general is there interest in this project, especially contributing
>> > to it?
>> > 
>> 
> I've been playing with writing one on my own in the meantime.  I fully
> expect it to be throwaway at such time as the DMD front end is
> contributed to the GCC project.  But, it's interesting to do anyway and
> I'm learning more about the front end of GCC in the process.
> 
> So far I've got most of the lexer and part of the parsing pass before
> semantic analysis.  That's the easy stuff.
> 
> Jerry

I'm trying - at a low effort level - to get the current GDC2 working with 
GCC-4.4.3. There has been pretty substantial surgery in 4.4, so it is not 
clear how to achieve the equivalent of the 4.3.4 GCC patches.

Steve