On 11 May 2017 at 23:19, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, 11 May 2017 at 21:14:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> Oh, do you have to do the multi-stage build yourself? I don't. > > > So you intend to keep a copy of the (old) bootstrap compiler sources in-tree > for all future D-based GDC versions (if/when you start requiring D)? We > could do that just as well, but it seems a bit pointless. — David
I do not intend to. Which is why switching to D-based GDC will be a no-op. It is at this point that you've lost me, there is no added complexity building a self-hosted compiler within GCC's build system. C++ is self-hosted, Ada is self-hosted, an acquaintance of mine even wrote a self-hosted ALGOL60 frontend to GCC. This is not a problem that needs to be solved for GDC. Iain.
