D front end implementation

[Rainer Schuetze via Digitalmars-d]

On 18.11.2016 15:37, Timon Gehr wrote:
>>
>> I hope to get the forward reference bugs solved in current dmd.
>
> Nice initiative!

It took some time, but here is a version of dmd:

https://github.com/rainers/dmd/tree/tg_frontend

that can compile an updated frontend:

https://github.com/tgehr/d-compiler/pull/1

[The debug version of dmd hits 2 assertions during code generation, 
though (some real/ireal type mismatch, unlikely to make a lot of trouble 
in the release build).]