Migrating dmd to D?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Brad Anderson" <eco at gnuk.net> wrote in message 
news:vdiwuykbulxauiabwams at forum.dlang.org...
> On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 14:11:02 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
>> "Suliman" <bubnenkoff at gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:htihsekthjkyhqazuvpc at forum.dlang.org...
>>> Does anybody work on port D to D?
>>
>> I've done quite a lot of work on it since dconf.
>>
>> The progress of making the C++ source 'conversion compatible' is shown 
>> here:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980
>>
>
> So all of those changes were just done by hand, right?  Have the other 
> DDMD labeled pull requests just been you cherry-picking from that branch?
>

Yes.

>> The porting program is here: https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2
>>
>> I am currently able to convert the C++ source to D, then build that into 
>> a
>> compiler capable of building itself, druntime, phobos (with unittests), 
>> and
>> passing the test suite on win32.
>>
>
> So what's left is basically cleaning it all up and fine tuning it so it's 
> good enough for the actual transition?

Mostly, yes.