[dmd-internals] Create a dmd-cxx branch on dlang/dmd

[Andrei Alexandrescu via dmd-internals]

Sounds good to me. Walter? -- Andrei

On 05/28/2017 07:21 AM, Iain Buclaw via dmd-internals wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What I see as a technical/design blocker for GDC being able to move
> forward to being self hosted is that I do not want to maintain two
> versions of the compiler "glue".  The change between one and the other
> should be seamless.
> 
> To tackle this, I've been backporting regression fixes from D to C++,
> and aligning the interfaces up so that C++ headers are (almost)
> identical between GDC and DMD/stable.  I would however like to do this
> on a more public platform that internally within GDC.
> 
> The idea is similar to the dmd-1.x branch.  I am happy to maintain
> this as a continuation of the C++ implementation, and strive to be as
> close to the current spec as possible, whilst also putting in big
> warnings that this branch is deprecated.
> 
> Would doing such a thing be OK?
> 
> The current C++ implementation is here:
> 
> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/master/gcc/d/dfrontend
> 
> Differences between this and upstream DMD are documented here:
> 
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/2194
> 
> Regards,
> Iain.
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