On Tuesday, 12 November 2013 at 01:32:16 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
On Monday, 11 November 2013 at 08:11:06 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
On Friday, 19 July 2013 at 13:38:12 UTC, Chad Joan wrote:
I think a C backend would get us farther than an LLVM backend.
Hi,
LLVM has a C++ backend in the git tree. The old C backend is
still maintained outside the git tree (search the dev mailing
list for an url).
So if you like C-output, you can start with LDC today. For
sure, you have to port druntime to this new environemnt...
Regards,
Kai
Is there any built-in support for using this C++ backend in LDC
right now? Something like "ldc --target=c++ main.d -o
main.cpp"?
Careful: The "cpp" LLVM backend actually creates C++ code that
constructs the corresponding LLVM IR and is mostly useful for
developers working on LLVM-based compilers.
But as Kai mentioned, there also is backend that emits equivalent
C. Last time I checked, it was still being worked on, even though
it isn't in the official LLVM source tree.
David
