http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9285
Summary: dtoh Product: D Version: D2 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P2 Component: DMD AssignedTo: nob...@puremagic.com ReportedBy: and...@erdani.com --- Comment #0 from Andrei Alexandrescu <and...@erdani.com> 2013-01-09 00:10:47 PST --- Generating D files from C or C++ header files is a difficult endeavor. However, the converse process of generating C++ header files from D source files is easier to approach, and very useful. Possible uses include migrating a large C++ codebase to D in small steps without needing to deal with declaration duplication across D code and C++ legacy code. (The dmd compiler itself may use the tool.) Using D as source and translating from D to C++ gives a robust unique point of maintenance. Here are a few requirements: * dtoh takes a D file as input and generates C++ declarations for all pertinent function and class declarations in the D file. * Accepted declarations: data, functions, classes, and interfaces for all types that have a C++ correspondent. * D declarations that cannot be translated into C++ will be ignored. * In order to stay decoupled from the compiler, dtoh should generate C++ code from the JSON output of the D compiler. * For make friendliness, dtoh should overwrite its output if and only if the generated output is different from the existing output. * The generated C++ code should be human readable (nicely indented etc) and use good C++ practices (e.g. include guards etc). * C++11 generation is default, there should be an option to generate C++98. The tool would be in the tools/ repository and distributed alongside with the compiler in source and binary forms. -- Configure issuemail: http://d.puremagic.com/issues/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: -------