Migrating dmd to D?

[Brad Anderson]

On Thursday, 15 August 2013 at 14:11:02 UTC, Daniel Murphy wrote:
> "Suliman" <bubnenkoff at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:htihsekthjkyhqazuvpc at forum.dlang.org...
>> Does anybody work on port D to D?
>
> I've done quite a lot of work on it since dconf.
>
> The progress of making the C++ source 'conversion compatible' 
> is shown here:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/1980
>

So all of those changes were just done by hand, right?  Have the 
other DDMD labeled pull requests just been you cherry-picking 
from that branch?

> The porting program is here: 
> https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2
>
> I am currently able to convert the C++ source to D, then build 
> that into a
> compiler capable of building itself, druntime, phobos (with 
> unittests), and
> passing the test suite on win32.
>

So what's left is basically cleaning it all up and fine tuning it 
so it's good enough for the actual transition?