On 9 May 2013 10:11, Thomas Koch <tho...@koch.ro> wrote: > Do you plan to support a build path that has no circular dependendencies? > This would be a very strong nice to have for porting D to new > architectures. > > So it should be possible to build a subset of D (stage 1) with gcc without > relying on a D compiler and than using the stage 1 binary to build a > complete D compiler. > > There are languages in Debian that rely on themselves to be build and it's > a > headache to support those languages on all architectures. > > Regards, Thomas Koch > > I'll will very likely keep a branch with the C++ implemented front end for these purposes. But ideally we should get porting as soon as possible ahead of this move so that there are already D compilers available for said targets.
Though it would be nice for the D implementation to be kept to a subset that is backwards compatible with 2.062 (or whatever version we decide to make the switch at), that is something I cannot guarantee. Regards -- Iain Buclaw *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';