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[Ellery Newcomer]

On 04/16/2010 03:13 PM, eles wrote:
>
> PS2 What does really means to use LLVM or GCC backends for dmd? Is a front-end
> somewhat like a parser (or bytecode compiler) and the back-end something like
> an assembler?

Pretty much.

Except in the case of D, the front end also requires a backend of sorts 
(for ctfe), and from what I understand, DMD's frontend and backend are 
kind of squooshed together. (Like certain errors don't get caught unless 
and until the backend's optimizer gets run)