When did gdc and ldc start?

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Tue Jul 31 19:07:41 UTC 2018


On 31 July 2018 at 20:40, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> What's the difference between:
>
>         DLI
>         GDMD
>         DGCC
>
> ?

DLI: From what I recall, an independent project that just simply
ported DMD front-end to Linux.  I don't remember the details how but
it had its own backend.
GDMD: One failed attempt at getting a GCC back-end working with DMD.
DGCC: The first successful GCC based compiler, to which GDC is derived from.

You could call DGCC the LUCA of GDC
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor :-)

Iain


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