An example of Clang error messages

Steve Teale steve.teale at britseyeview.com
Fri Mar 5 10:54:22 PST 2010


On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:04:47 -0500, Jerry Quinn wrote:

> 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

Good to hear from you again Jerry - please keep it up. There were fairly 
recent signs of life from GDC, but they seem to have dropped off. I have 
been trying to move the most recent GDC version to GCC 4.4.3,but there 
have been breaking changes there, so I have a long way to go.

Steve




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