Calypso: Direct and full interfacing to C++

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 23 Dec 2014 13:30, "CraigDillabaugh via Digitalmars-d-announce" <
digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
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> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 11:53:38 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
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>> On Tuesday, 23 December 2014 at 10:52:58 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling
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>> Consider both things like embedded/MIPS and Windows64 - LLVM tooling is
not as strong on those right now, GCC does not provide such easy way to
reuse C++ frontend and with DMD/MSVC it is simply beyond feasibility.
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> Regarding GCC C++ frontend, will this be of help (also recently posted on
this list):
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> http://forum.dlang.org/thread/weodkqwxrqetvolhbghb@forum.dlang.org
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I would say no.  The interface exposed by the jit frontend only supports a
small subset of C-like code at this point in time.  And doesn't allow you
to access other frontends.

Iain.
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