dmdfe / dflect update

[Tomas Lindquist Olsen]

bls wrote:

> Hi Tomas,
> please explain the sense and possible practical use of your dflect
> implementation.
>  I guess it is in Cpp so why the  brave D Developer should spend time
> in investigating this software ?
> (Could be a matter of interrest if Stubs have a DLL interface)
> 
> In case that I pick on your nerves ...Not my intention!! Just wonder
> ..  Bjoern
> 
> 
> "Tomas Lindquist Olsen" <tomas at famolsen.dk> schreef in bericht
> news:ela360$1fch$1 at digitaldaemon.com...
> > Same as: http://dsource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=839
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > I wanted to have a look at the dmd frontend so ended up checking out
> > this (dmdfe).
> > It was 0.121 and I found dflect as well which was 0.126.
> > 
> > I grabbed dflect which is almost the same as dmdfe, except it
> > generates some runtime reflection code (which I have not tested,
> > but the app runs and generates some output).
> > 
> > dmdfe wise: Except for the Module::genobjfile they are all still
> > stubs.
> > 
> > The upgrade to 0.176 was actually pretty easy, so I might have
> > missed something, but it compiles...
> > 
> > Hope somebody will find this useful.
> > 
> > http://famolsen.dk/d/dflect-176.zip
> > 
> > -- Tomas
> > 

I personally wanted to see how the DMD frontend worked.
The dflect stuff is just because dflect used dmdfe and was a newer
version of DMD than dmdfe.

If someone wishes to do something with the DMD frontend, then this
project could be helpful in getting started faster...

Reason I looked into it was to learn more about compilers - something I
have never investigated before. I've also been reading the LLVM docs
for a while since there was a post about it.

Who knows, if I keep finding this interesting enough I might use the
code I just posted as a base for making a LLVM based D compiler.

I found it much easier to figure out (somewhat) what is going on in DMD
using this compared to the raw DMD, as I can actually compile this an
get an app with a DMD commandline interface.

-- Tomas