On 2016-01-28 16:20, Dicebot wrote:
I think it is very important to focus on polishing dstep instead of
creating more and more imperfect tools. In the end any approach which
doesn't use existing mature C compiler frontend is doomed to make
binding mistakes.
Random suggestions for improving dstep:
- implement support for C++ clang API using new shiny dmd features (it
tends to have more features than C one)
I would like to avoid this until there's absolutely no other way to do it.
A couple of other ideas:
* Getting the D code more looking like the C code. For example, the same
order for the symbols as the C code has. Currently it outputs all
variables first, then all types and all functions last
* Add support for comments
* Generated libclang bindings. These are now manually created, mostly
for the above two reasons. Ideally it would be possible to generate
bindings almost exactly like the manually created ones [1]
[1] https://github.com/jacob-carlborg/dstep/blob/master/clang/c/Index.d
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/Jacob Carlborg
