Migrating dmd to D?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-02-28 18:18, Iain Buclaw wrote:

> We still do not know what portions of the frontend is being ported over
> to D.  The way gdc is written, it takes the D Frontend, removes all C++
> parts that interface with dmd's backend - toElem; toIR; toObjFile;
> toSymbol; toCtype; toDt (this latter one I am in the middle of removing
> from gdc) and implements them to instead build GCC trees, the code
> itself also being in C++.
>
> These are all methods defined in D Front-End, and rely on calling and
> interfacing with the gcc backend.  Re-writing these in D is not an
> option, as require access to GCC macros.

If you're removing these functions does it matter which language they're 
written in ?

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg