Callout to DMD hackers

Asman01 jckj33 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 11 18:02:25 PDT 2014


On Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 13:25:32 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> Recently Vladimir Panteleev has ported the DMD Source Guide 
> from the old wiki to the new one[1], and updated it with 
> up-to-date information. I've added a "DMD Hacking Tips & 
> Tricks" section[2], which should help people new to the 
> codebase to start hacking on DMD-FE. I've only added a few tips 
> that I know of.
>
> If you regularly hack on DMD and know some good tips for new 
> DMD developers, please either post those tips in this thread 
> and we'll add them to the wiki, or you can directly add them to 
> the wiki. Everybody benefits from sharing knowledge about 
> compiler internals. For example, GCC has pretty extensive 
> documentation about its internals[3].
>
> [1] : http://wiki.dlang.org/DMD_Source_Guide
> [2] : 
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DMD_Source_Guide#DMD_Hacking_Tips_.26_Tricks
> [3] : http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/

Just for clarification, the parsing method which dmd use is a 
recursive descent parser, right?


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