D + LLVM?

[Stephen Waits]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> 
>> Has anyone looked at marrying the D front end to LLVM?
>>
> I have been playing around with merging the DMD frontend and LLVM for about
> a week now. It's not a really serious attempt, but it's going a lot better

Thomas, that's GREAT to hear!

> The main issue I've had so far is translating to the LLVM SSA form. As far
> as I have seen DMD does not provide any information about whether a

Is LLVM's SSA structure the same as gcc's?  I know they've interface gcc 
and g++ onto LLVM.

This is why I figured GDC might be a viable front-end for LLVM; however, 
I obviously haven't looked into it yet.

--Steve