[Dlang-internal] Status of C++ .h files in D front end source code

[kinke via Dlang-internal]

On Monday, 19 December 2016 at 09:43:42 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> Related: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6334
>
> dmd has converted 100% of the glue code to D. It no longer has 
> any use for the .h files in the front end. In other words, the 
> .h files exist only to support GDC and LDC.
>
> What are the prospects for reducing the dependence of GDC/LDC 
> on those .h files? I figure it is impractical to convert 
> gcc/llvm header files to D in order to convert all the glue 
> code to D,

For LDC: absolutely impractical if not utopian.

> but could the glue code be split up into D and C++ sources so 
> that the C++ code will no longer need those headers?

For LDC again: not anytime soon, that'd be a *huge* effort.