On Monday, 21 November 2016 at 10:41:27 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
In LLVMweekly [1], I read the following:
"You may be be interested, amazed, and/or horrified to learn of
constexpr-8cc [2]. It provides a compile-time C compiler
implemented as C++14 constant expressions."
The constexpr compiler is generated using ELVM [3], a C
compiler that targets a bunch of other languages (instead of
targeting machine code). The constexpr compiler was built by
adding a C++14-constexpr target to ELVM. [4]
A fun project: add a D CTFE backend? ;)
cheers,
Johan
[1] http://llvmweekly.org/issue/151
[2] https://github.com/kw-udon/constexpr-8cc
[3] https://github.com/shinh/elvm
[4]
https://github.com/shinh/elvm/commit/b6e2fed3326d57d05f1a354938bd3b9545ab701b
I have been working on similar things for quite a while now.
Compiling C at ctfe is perfectly doable.
(If your input source is relatively small because CTFE
implementation issues.)
A compiling The full body of D at compiletime will eventually
become possible with the mainstream D-Frontend..
