D port of dmd: Lexer, Parser, AND CodeGenerator fully operational

[Zach the Mystic]

On Thursday, 8 March 2012 at 05:41:46 UTC, dolive wrote:
> Great work !
>
> Ask a few questions :
> Is there documentation?  can it parse dmd c source file ? ( 
> Auto- complete feature of the ide will involve dmd c source 
> file ? )
>
> thank's
>
> Dolive

No documentation. Even the API is inconsistent between similar 
parsing calls. The only one called from outside originally was 
p.parseModule(), and that was after the buffer had been primed 
with detectByteOrderMarkandConvertToAscii (still not 
implemented), and #!ignoreFirstlineHashbang. Another downside is 
that you currently have to prime each buffer you load with 
p.nextToken() before calling p.parseXXX() to return what you 
want. Most of the parsing calls are made internally by the parser 
itself. It's going to take a little more effort to worked out a 
reasonable API for it, but I suppose that will also be the ideal 
time to document it.

As far as parsing C source files, I think you'll need a C 
compiler for that!