On 1 August 2018 at 03:04, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/31/2018 12:07 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> On 31 July 2018 at 20:40, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> What's the difference between: >>> >>> DLI >>> GDMD >>> DGCC >>> >>> ? >> >> >> DLI: From what I recall, an independent project that just simply >> ported DMD front-end to Linux. I don't remember the details how but >> it had its own backend. >> GDMD: One failed attempt at getting a GCC back-end working with DMD. >> DGCC: The first successful GCC based compiler, to which GDC is derived >> from. >> >> You could call DGCC the LUCA of GDC >> (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor :-) >> >> Iain >> > > Was DGCC started from the GDMD sources? >
As far as I can tell, they were independent attempts.
