Request for comments: std.d.lexer

[Iain Buclaw]

On 8 February 2013 16:41, Brian Schott <briancschott at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday, 8 February 2013 at 16:38:00 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>
>> I see we could be doing this all day. :þ
>>
>
> We could.
>
>
>  I'll lay down the hint, dmd compiles the source, not gcc. And although gcc
>> may be invoked during a certain special stage of compilation, its actually
>> just a driver to call a certain toolchain program that is outside of gcc.
>> :-)
>>
>
> What we're saying is that dmd, The Digital Mars D Compiler, is written in
> C++ and is thus built by GCC/G++. We can tell by looking at the Makefile
> that DMD doesn't build itself.
>

That still has nothing to do with how dmd links D programs. ;)


-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
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