On 15 November 2014 13:47, ketmar via D.gnu <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:39:52 +0000 > "Koz Ross via D.gnu" <d.gnu@puremagic.com> wrote: > >> First-off, I would like to thank everyone who made GDC - as a >> supporter of free software, it's good to have a compiler that >> doesn't have a proprietary back-end for a language I like as much >> as D. >> >> Now, I'm an avid Emacs user, and as part of that, I use Flycheck >> for syntax checking. The default syntax checker for Flycheck >> (which relies on external programs) is DMD. Not being happy with >> this state of affairs, I decided to write some Elisp to allow GDC >> to be used instead, and I'm happy to say that it works. >> >> Obviously, in the spirit of sharing and helping others, I would >> like my checker code to be included into Flycheck. However, the >> maintainer of Flycheck basically said that, unless given concrete >> reasons *other* than licensing, he would not include it. >> >> Now, I'm not too familiar with the linting/error reporting >> capabilities of GDC as opposed to DMD, and would like some help >> in this regard. If any of you could tell me any benefits to >> linting, error-checking or anything similar in GDC as opposed to >> DMD, I would be very grateful, and it would help support a free >> software compiler in a very good Emacs package. >> >> Thank you in advance. > as GDC and DMD both using the same backend (despite the version > differences, of course), there is nothing that one of them doing better > than other. >
Same frontend. And even then there are some crucial differences on ABI level.
