On 1 March 2013 07:26, Jacob Carlborg <d...@me.com> wrote: > On 2013-02-28 18:18, Iain Buclaw wrote: > > We still do not know what portions of the frontend is being ported over >> to D. The way gdc is written, it takes the D Frontend, removes all C++ >> parts that interface with dmd's backend - toElem; toIR; toObjFile; >> toSymbol; toCtype; toDt (this latter one I am in the middle of removing >> from gdc) and implements them to instead build GCC trees, the code >> itself also being in C++. >> >> These are all methods defined in D Front-End, and rely on calling and >> interfacing with the gcc backend. Re-writing these in D is not an >> option, as require access to GCC macros. >> > > If you're removing these functions does it matter which language they're > written in ? > > -- > /Jacob Carlborg >
Not removed, re-written. For example, VectorExp::toElem(). For gdc: https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/blob/master/gcc/d/d-elem.cc#L2375 For dmd: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/master/src/e2ir.c#L3820 Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
