On 04/16/2010 03:13 PM, eles wrote:
PS2 What does really means to use LLVM or GCC backends for dmd? Is a front-end somewhat like a parser (or bytecode compiler) and the back-end something like an assembler?
Pretty much.Except in the case of D, the front end also requires a backend of sorts (for ctfe), and from what I understand, DMD's frontend and backend are kind of squooshed together. (Like certain errors don't get caught unless and until the backend's optimizer gets run)
