GDC 4.7 and frontend/phobos 2.060

[Iain Buclaw]

On 5 November 2012 18:04, H. S. Teoh <hsteoh at quickfur.ath.cx> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 05, 2012 at 05:40:36PM +0000, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> On 5 November 2012 16:10, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
>> <joseph.wakeling at webdrake.net> wrote:
> [...]
>> > Is there a particular reason not to allow the frontend, druntime and
>> > phobos to be git submodules which could be kept up to date with
>> > upstream in a more 'live' fashion?  I can imagine it might add extra
>> > day-to-day issues but it might save the pain of those huge merges
>> > ...
>> >
>>
>> Because we make changes to DFE, Phobos, Druntime to be compatible with
>> things GDC does that DMD doesn't do.
>
> If we somehow manage to get 2.060 working for the 4.7 branch, would you
> take a pull request? ;-)
>
> I know you're focusing on 4.8, but I'm still unable to get it to build
> correctly, whereas the 4.7 branch works for me. And I'd really like to
> have 2.060 gdc for some of my D projects.
>
>

Yes.

>> I have discussed the notion of altering the DFE to be a more shared
>> source base for all compilers - where areas that are DMD-specific in
>> DFE are removed and replaced with hooks.  So to port DFE to your own
>> backend, all you require to do is implement these hooks in your glue
>> code (on top of all the ::toSymbol, ::toIR, ::toObjFile, ::toCtype,
>> routines).
> [...]
>
> I think this is something important to work towards. This will greatly
> widen the availability of D, which can only be a good thing.
>
>

Andrei thought very much the same when I last spoke to him, but it's
later down the priority list - eg, ARM is a bigger priority atm.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

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