08-Feb-2013 20:51, Iain Buclaw пишет:
On 8 February 2013 16:41, Brian Schott <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Friday, 8 February 2013 at 16:38:00 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: I see we could be doing this all day. :þ We could. I'll lay down the hint, dmd compiles the source, not gcc. And although gcc may be invoked during a certain special stage of compilation, its actually just a driver to call a certain toolchain program that is outside of gcc. :-) What we're saying is that dmd, The Digital Mars D Compiler, is written in C++ and is thus built by GCC/G++. We can tell by looking at the Makefile that DMD doesn't build itself. That still has nothing to do with how dmd links D programs. ;)
We've been discussing DMD's lexer written in C++ that is obviously compiled using the default compiler on target platform. That's what is being measured the good ol' C++ lexer vs D lexer. I don't see how the way DMD does linking is related to what tool is used to actually build it.
-- Dmitry Olshansky
