"Daniel Murphy" <yebbl...@nospamgmail.com> wrote in message news:kgumek$2tp4$1...@digitalmars.com... > "Zach the Mystic" <reachbutminusthisz...@googlymail.com> wrote in message > news:pabfuaorrjbljxzrg...@forum.dlang.org... >>> >>> Something like this https://github.com/yebblies/magicport2 ? >> >> Yes! I need to look it over more thoroughly, but I couldn't ask for a >> better beginning. Can I trust that you'll be a willing part of future >> discussions on this matter, even if only to play Devil's Advocate? > > More like a full-blown attempt than a beginning. I started this a long > time ago. > > There are three parts to it: > - c++ parser/d printer, with lots of cheating and special cases > - patches to the c++ source > - patched version of dmd to build the result (no error on variable > shadowing etc) > > It produces a 70000 line d file which appears to get through 3/7ths of > semantic1. Root needs to be ported, and a cleaner interface to the > backend is needed to compile the glue layer. >
Update: With the bulk of root converting or ported, and the glue layer stubbed out, I can build dmd from the converted source then lex and parse the source (+druntime headers) again. The highlight was the dynamically resized struct in root/stringtable. Something went horribly wrong there.