Can someone summarize what happened to the previous attempts to get a D
front-end?
I read some of the post in this newsgroup and it seemed like the D frontend
was successfully compiled by gcc.
I just tried adding a .cpp file to the sample front-end "treelang" that
comes with GCC and it looks like that will work as long as you compile it
with an existing g++ and not xgcc (the compiler from the previous bootstrap
stage).
How far had people gotten with the interface between gcc backend and D
front-end?

-Ben

Ben Hinkle wrote:
> Can someone summarize what happened to the previous attempts to get a D
> front-end?
> I read some of the post in this newsgroup and it seemed like the D frontend
> was successfully compiled by gcc.

Correct, and it should be available for download @ www.opend.org
However, this frontend is and old one.

> I just tried adding a .cpp file to the sample front-end "treelang" that
> comes with GCC and it looks like that will work as long as you compile it
> with an existing g++ and not xgcc (the compiler from the previous bootstrap
> stage).
> How far had people gotten with the interface between gcc backend and D
> front-end?

Some, mostly study...

Jan

-- 
ManiaC++
Jan Knepper

Does this use gcc's "main" or D's "main"?
I don't see the gcc Make-lang.in, config-lang.in, etc so I'm guessing it
uses D's main.
-Ben

"Jan Knepper" <jan@smartsoft.us> wrote in message news:bou9jv$pbm$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Ben Hinkle wrote:
> > Can someone summarize what happened to the previous attempts to get a D
> > front-end?
> > I read some of the post in this newsgroup and it seemed like the D
frontend
> > was successfully compiled by gcc.
>
> Correct, and it should be available for download @ www.opend.org However, this frontend is and old one.
>
> > I just tried adding a .cpp file to the sample front-end "treelang" that comes with GCC and it looks like that will work as long as you compile
it
> > with an existing g++ and not xgcc (the compiler from the previous
bootstrap
> > stage).
> > How far had people gotten with the interface between gcc backend and D
> > front-end?
>
> Some, mostly study...
>
> Jan
>
> -- 
> ManiaC++
> Jan Knepper
>

Ben Hinkle wrote:
> Does this use gcc's "main" or D's "main"?

It doesn't use anything from GCC.

It was simply made sure that you can compile the front-end using the GCC compiler.

> I don't see the gcc Make-lang.in, config-lang.in, etc so I'm guessing it
> uses D's main.

Whew, this stuff makes me sick. :)

-eye