built in import c header files

[Max Haughton]

On Saturday, 17 April 2021 at 22:12:41 UTC, 12345swordy wrote:
> On Saturday, 17 April 2021 at 21:32:24 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 10/6/2020 7:56 PM, Max Haughton wrote:
>>> Not impossible (it's worth saying that you can literally do 
>>> this as a library via mixins), but having a c parser in the 
>>> compiler seems like too much work when it's already fairly 
>>> trivial to do. If D had a team of full time staff on payroll, 
>>> then it could be made to work but it adds so much surface 
>>> area to the compiler.
>>
>> You'll also have problems with all the nutburger C extensions 
>> implemented by various compilers.
>
> There is no need for the dmd frontend to implement that. The 
> ldc2 and the gdc compilers can relay on their c++ counterparts 
> to provided the c extensions.
>
> -Alex

No they can't or at least GCC *maybe* could but LDC is a separate 
project entirely from clang.