An example of Clang error messages

Jerry Quinn jlquinn at optonline.net
Thu Mar 4 19:04:47 PST 2010


Walter Bright Wrote:

> grauzone wrote:
> > How many man years would you assume writing a full D compiler takes? 
> > (Frontend starting from scratch, using an existing backend.)
> 
> But there's little reason to implement a D compiler from scratch. For 
> open source uses, you can just go ahead and use dmd. For closed, 
> proprietary uses, we can work something out.

Hi, me again.  Following up on this comment, can I bring up the proposal of contributing a snapshot of the dmd frontend to the GCC project?  I think for D to be really viable in GCC, it must be a part of the source tree.

I hope I'm not being a pest.

Thanks,
Jerry




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