Add ImportC compiler to dmd

[Patrick Schluter]

On Monday, 10 May 2021 at 09:24:39 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/10/2021 12:39 AM, Patrick Schluter wrote:
>> The only thing that bothers me as it is now is the fact that 
>> it doesn't support intializer list `{ intializers }`, which I 
>> suppose means that designated initializers `{ .field = ..., 
>> [3]=... }`and compound statements `(type){ initializers }` are 
>> not working either. This would be a real real problem for 
>> modern C code (C99 and superior).
>
> The only issue is { initializer-list } has no direct analog in 
> D, so I've got to add one to the D side.
>
> For the purpose of this prototype, I wished to avoid adding 
> code that wasn't in cparse.d.

I get that but just wanted to point out that that will be a big 
issue (it's such a big issue that C++ had to implement it with 
C++20).