On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 21:00:47 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:54:06 UTC, John Colvin wrote:
On Friday, 10 January 2014 at 20:51:19 UTC, Dwhatever wrote:
This might have been brought up before but I couldn't find
any thread about this. As things has progressed I wonder if
Digital Mars DMD should move over to use LLVM instead of its
own code generation and compiler framework.
As I see it with the small amount of contributors D-language
has, DMD will never support anything beyond x86 as there are
no resources for this. Also, why spend time on recreating the
the code generation which has already been done with LLVM?
This enables this community to focus on the language which is
the most important part as well as supporting more and future
processor targets.
This comes up regularly. It's already been done. Ldc *is* dmd
with llvm backend. Gdc is the same idea but with the gcc
framework.
Picking LLVM as the default development platform also means
that it will tested in this environment instead of porting it
all the time which introduce new bugs. The support is also
different among the different backends, picking one would
harmonize this and make it more complete.
Hopefully, when the ddmd changeover happens (translating the
frontend to D) the frontend will be truly shared between the
different compilers.
