DMD 1.031 and 2.015 releases

BLS nanali at nospam-wanadoo.fr
Fri Jun 20 06:57:43 PDT 2008


Georg Wrede schrieb:
> Charles Hixson wrote:
>> A D compiler option to emit C code?  (Or C++ code?)  It wouldn't need 
>> to be as efficient as D-to-executable in order to be portable.
> 
> There's no reason this code would be any less efficient than the ASM the 
> D compiler has to generate anyway. After all, the "C language" is 
> actually not a language, it is more like a CPU independent symbolic 
> assembly language. (At least in the K&R days it was.)
> 
> While technologically an interesting option, I'd think that in a 
> political way this would be unwise. Not to mention the credibility of D.
> 

Most Eiffel compilers are using C as intermediate language. b



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