preprocessor pass equivalent?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-03-15 14:34, Jay Norwood wrote:
> On Thursday, 15 March 2012 at 10:09:25 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>> The Eclipse plugin, Descent, has a view that does something like this.
>>> Although I don't know how well it works for D2.
>>>
>>
>> It expands mixins, string mixins, replaces scope statements with
>> try/catch/finally and other things. It also has a compile time debugger.
>
> Wow, that's pretty impressive. Does it do aliases also?

I think so and showing the actual type for type inference as well.

> I read a little more last night and saw that there is an option for json
> output from dmd, and tried it out. Is that meant to serve the purpose of
> the gccxml program?
>
>
> I also found mention of a c++ compiler that someone states can compile
> c++ and output C. Kind of weird, but maybe compiling D to expanded D
> would not be such a stretch.

I think LLVM can do this, convert C++ to C, via its byte code.

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/Jacob Carlborg