DDMD and such.

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2011-09-28 18:19, Trass3r wrote:
>>> FWIW, There's isn't a very strong separation between the frontend and
>>> backend. A lot of the backend functions are in the same AST classes that
>>> also have a lot of front-end stuff. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing
>>> that could be difficult to have classes that are partially
>>> implemented in C++ and partially in D.
>>
>> Although that said, DDMD *did* already solve that problem, so maybe it
>> wouldn't be too bad after all?
>
> The backend integration in ddmd is rather hackish. It is somehow
> compiled as a library and then called from ddmd. Moreover there are
> dependencies from the backend back to the frontend that complicate the
> situation. It was rather scary when I last looked at it.

Yeah, it's not pretty. There where also a lot of D/C++ integration bugs 
that needed to be fixed to get everything working. BTW, are all those 
bugs fixed?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg