Request for Help: Updating LDC to LLVM 15

[test123]

On Saturday, 27 August 2022 at 13:27:47 UTC, Nicholas Wilson 
wrote:
> Hi All
>
> LLVM 15 has changed the API quite significantly, mostly with 
> the transition to opaque pointer types which pushes the onus of 
> keeping track of what types are loaded to the driver (i.e. 
> LDC), and in order to update I've put together a checklist[1].
>
> As the reacting required touches a large number of site but is 
> it otherwise mostly the same set of changes, with replacing 
> loads which rely on LLVM for type information, with typed loads 
> derived from the D types. However these changes are different 
> enough that each call site requires individual analysis.
>
> This has been quite a slog so far and I'd like to solicit the 
> time of anyone interested in helping and/or learning the LDC 
> codebase (for this it's mostly DMD's Type class hierarchy, 
> LDC's LLVM IR generations, and the interface of LLVM).
>
> I'll be available on the beerconf jitsi for most of the weekend 
> as well as the discord to provide more details and directions.
>
> Many thanks,
> Nic
>
> [1]: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues/4042

Thanks for all the hard work put into D open source compiler. I 
am sorry I can not able to help(dont know C++).

D community get smaller every year. If there is not enough 
qualified developer maintain LDC, D will disappear soon.