Jerry Quinn, el 17 de enero a las 21:43 me escribiste: > Hi, folks, > > I'm interested in creating a D front end for GCC that would be part of > the GCC codebase. My feeling is that a GDC that is part of GCC > distributions will likely have more life than one that must be updated > whenever a new GCC release comes out. As with linux kernel in-tree > drivers being kept up to date, an integrated GDC would tend to move > forward as well.
I think that if a D compiler is included with the official GCC distribution, it would be a massive step forward for the language. It would make it's adoption much easier since people tend to trust a lot in GCC. > My personal desire is to implement (and track) the 2.0 language since > I would like to see that feature set available through GCC. Second, by > the time a working front end becomes part of GCC, the 2.0 language will > likely be complete. If you are really going to do this, I strongly suggest that you make the new front-end as back-end independent as possible, so it can be used by other back-ends like LLVM. People is not very happy in general with DMD front-end, so having a new front-end that's not tied to DMD's back-end could be a huge win for other projects too. That could encourage third party tools too, like code analyzers, or even make it suitable for embedding in IDEs, etc. I think it would be best to even make the front-end project a separated from the whole compiler. > One question I have (of many) is whether a different name should be > used. If this is called GDC there will be some confusion with the > current GDC. What thoughts do you all have? I think too that if this compiler is intended to replace the current GDC (I'm not convinced that's a good idea, maybe it would be nice to have both front-end options), taking over the name is OK, otherwise a new name would be necessary. > In general is there interest in this project, especially contributing to > it? I'm *very* interested, not so sure I could contribute a lot though :( -- Leandro Lucarella (AKA luca) http://llucax.com.ar/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Key: 5F5A8D05 (F8CD F9A7 BF00 5431 4145 104C 949E BFB6 5F5A 8D05) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Agitamos toda la zona de la paleta al horno, vemos que una luz nos atraviesa toda la zona intestinal... -- Sidharta Kiwi
