Tiny D suitable for embedded JIT

[Jonathan Marler]

On Thursday, 24 May 2018 at 20:22:15 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 May 2018 at 18:49:05 UTC, Dibyendu Majumdar 
> wrote:
>> The ultimate goal is to have JIT library that is small, has 
>> fast compilation, and generates reasonable code (i.e. some 
>> form of global register allocation). The options I am looking 
>> at are a) start from scratch, b) hack LLVM, or c) hack DMD.
>>
>
> I have been looking at DMD code (mainly the backend stuff) for 
> this ... I think it will be too difficult for me to try to 
> modify it :-(
>
> Regards
> Dibyendu

Sad to hear. Was interested to see if this was feasible.  I don't 
have much experience with the backend but if you're still up for 
the task, take a look at `dmd/glue.d`.  I don't know how much of 
the glue layer this includes but it would be a good start.  DMD 
does have a common "glue layer" shared by DMD, LDC and GDC, so 
you'd basically need to find the API to build this glue layer and 
that's what you would use.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/src/dmd/glue.d