alternative D frontends should have a LLVM backend

0ffh spam at frankhirsch.net
Mon Oct 29 17:12:28 PDT 2007


BLS wrote:
> LLVM advantages are well known, but IMO alternative D Frontends like DIL 
> should have a LLVM backend because this will open us a backdoor to DOT 
> NET via MSIL

I don't really know. Whenever I need to generate code, I go via C because
it supports every architecture I could ever need (or in fact think of).
For a D backend the LLVM might have it's advantages, but I really can't
think of any. How is generating LLVM better than generating C source?

Regards, Frank



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