Migrating dmd to D?

[Zach the Mystic]

On Monday, 11 March 2013 at 15:23:17 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> Umm...
>
> C++ compiler source -> my tool -> D source
> D source -> normal dmd -> self-host dmd
> D source -> self-host dmd -> no problems, but only the frontend 
> so no code
> generation
> tool source -> self-host dmd -> same thing

This is great. I'm still trying to invent the wheel, and you're 
driving a sports car. I've been trying to develop a general 
purpose text-to-text translation program, but it may be just 
something I need to do for myself - I need to learn this stuff, 
but your progress is really encouraging.

Are there any blind spots to your approach right now? It looks 
like you're destined to get this whole thing covered. I was 
wondering your thoughts on some of the more sophisticated 
operations, like converted all of dmd/root to built-in D, 
OutBuffer -> Appender!string, standard C/C++ libraries (malloc, 
strcmp, const char* -> string, etc.)? Are these things within 
grasp, given the incentive and enough time, or farther away than 
what you've got right now?