On 18 November 2015 at 09:24, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/11/2015 3:12 AM, Johannes Pfau wrote: > >> >> A crazy idea: >> Once gdc supports the latest frontend version we could theoretically >> adjust the dmd pull request testing to also merge dmd pull requests >> into the gdc frontend and test gdc with these frontend-only requests. We >> would then only merge dmd pull requests that build for gdc as well. Then >> we would need some hooks to also automatically pull these into gdc. Or >> we could setup the frontend as a submodule. >> >> > > It's not a crazy idea at all. The problem is that we will need to get the > compilers in sync first, and I'm not sure that's getting any closer to > being reality. > > There are many factors at play here from my side. Some technical blockers (like the use of floating point in the front-end), some are design (where will we store data to associate the backend symbol with the frontend), some fall into the something-else category. It may be due to the latter that the only way forward is to take the current front-end HEAD and take a much ground-up approach.
