Re: Will it be possible to write a GCC frontend in D?
On Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 21:33:00 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: There is no branch, it is just part of the upstream mainline. see: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=tree;f=gcc/d/dmd;h=454baa71a0d270fb891acdda6fd0215a3d6cb588;hb=HEAD Oh, this is what I mean by saying "branch" so my mistake. Thanks for the info! and yeah it is extern(C++). importC isn't going to be helpful, but still, gdc proves you can make a gcc frontend in d. Yeah, If you put it that way. Tbh, I already knew it was possible to do is this way because I know GDC's frontend was written in D. However, I was wondering if we can have C bindings but it seems that's not the case.
Re: Will it be possible to write a GCC frontend in D?
On Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 20:42:10 UTC, rempas wrote: Do you know where is the updated GDC branch btw? There is no branch, it is just part of the upstream mainline. see: https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=tree;f=gcc/d/dmd;h=454baa71a0d270fb891acdda6fd0215a3d6cb588;hb=HEAD and yeah it is extern(C++). importC isn't going to be helpful, but still, gdc proves you can make a gcc frontend in d.
Re: Will it be possible to write a GCC frontend in D?
On Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 20:19:04 UTC, Adam D Ruppe wrote: I should hope so, otherwise gdc wouldn't exist, yet it does. [extern (C++)](https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gdc/tree/master/gcc/d/dmd) and manually creating the decorations. At least that's my understanding of browsing the source and that was until 2018. Do you know where is the updated GDC branch btw?
Re: Will it be possible to write a GCC frontend in D?
On Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 20:06:58 UTC, bachmeier wrote: Not sure if this is the same thing (a link would have helped) but [this is done in C](https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/compilerdesign/C/csupport.html) Thank you! However, one things that I didn't mentioned is that GCC was once written in C but now it is written in C++ so the date this was created matters.
Re: Will it be possible to write a GCC frontend in D?
On Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 19:58:45 UTC, rempas wrote: Will it be possible to write a GCC frontend in D? I should hope so, otherwise gdc wouldn't exist, yet it does.
Re: Will it be possible to write a GCC frontend in D?
On Wednesday, 23 February 2022 at 19:58:45 UTC, rempas wrote: I'm using a book called "modern compiler design (version 2)" to learn how to create compiler and I thought about learning and applying this knowledge on writing a GCC frontend just for fun to see where this gets me. However, I've seen some tutorials and I've seen people doing it in C++. Now, I want to do it in D (of course!). My problem is that I don't if the headers are using C++ features because If this is possible then I won't be able to use ImportC to "automatically" get bindings to use in D. Any ideas? Not sure if this is the same thing (a link would have helped) but [this is done in C](https://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/compilerdesign/C/csupport.html)
