DDMD is now in the master branch

Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Wed Apr 8 01:06:55 PDT 2015


On 2015-04-08 08:26, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> Several hours ago, Walter merged my DDMD branch into master.  This means
> that an additional 'ddmd' target is available in the makefiles, and the
> autotester will check that it builds.
>
> The make target converts the C++ frontend source to D, and then compiles
> with the host dmd.  The converter is included in the DMD repo for now.
>
> If you are a DMD developer, pull requests may need to be updated to
> modify the converter's configuration file, or to replace problematic
> code that cannot be converted.  Details can be found here:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Updating_Pull_Requests_for_DDMD
>
> For everyone else, please test the generated ddmd binary with your
> projects and report any correctness or performance problems you
> encounter.  I'm also interested in feedback on the quality of the
> generated D source.
>
> When we are satisfied with the quality of the D version, we will switch
> over all development to it and delete the C++ source.  If we're lucky
> this will happen before the 2.068 release.
>
> Thanks to everybody who has helped with DDMD over the last two years.

This is great news, awesome :)

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg


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