On Saturday, 8 March 2014 at 13:25:32 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
Recently Vladimir Panteleev has ported the DMD Source Guide
from the old wiki to the new one[1], and updated it with
up-to-date information. I've added a "DMD Hacking Tips &
Tricks" section[2], which should help people new to the
codebase to start hacking on DMD-FE. I've only added a few tips
that I know of.
If you regularly hack on DMD and know some good tips for new
DMD developers, please either post those tips in this thread
and we'll add them to the wiki, or you can directly add them to
the wiki. Everybody benefits from sharing knowledge about
compiler internals. For example, GCC has pretty extensive
documentation about its internals[3].
[1] : http://wiki.dlang.org/DMD_Source_Guide
[2] :
http://wiki.dlang.org/DMD_Source_Guide#DMD_Hacking_Tips_.26_Tricks
[3] : http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gccint/
Awesome! Thanks for the information. This part of article[1] was
funny to add Walter as one of the people seem to have understood
the DMD IR. Was not DMD IR implemented by Walter? also, me too. I
don't got how DMD IR actually works or what is like.
I don't understand this part "converted to UTF-8 when necessary"
in [2].
What does it mean? I don't know much about UTF-8, just basics,
unlike as should do, but shouldn't convert everything to UTF-8
and just handle the source code as UTF-8?
[1]: I've been looking at trying to hook the DMD frontend up to
LLVM (www.llvm.org), but I've been having some trouble. The LLVM
IR (Intermediate Representation) is very well documented, but I'm
having a rough time figuring out how DMD holds its IR. Since at
least three people (David, Ben, and Walter) seem to have
understand, I thought I'd ask for guidance.
