Migrating dmd to D?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 1 March 2013 07:26, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> 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
>


Not removed, re-written.  For example, VectorExp::toElem().

For gdc:
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/blob/master/gcc/d/d-elem.cc#L2375
For dmd:
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/e2ir.c#L3820


Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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