On Wednesday, 13 January 2021 at 14:17:51 UTC, Rikki Cattermole
wrote:
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> Same thing.
Clear, thanks.
I'm just discovering today that DMD and LDC are two different
compilers. I got a different impression from the following
webpage, which claims that ldmd2 is a wrapper invoking ldc2.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35515138/ldc2-vs-ldmd2-whats-the-difference
Perhaps this is just a peculiarity of how D is distributed on
Debian? I simply installed the 'ldc' package from Debian's
official repos, and that contains both a binary called ldc2 and
one called ldmd2.
There are 3 main compilers which share same frontend,
DMD (using own backend), LDC2(llvm backend) a GDC(gcc backend)
ldmd and gdmd are some wrappers to make similar interface for compiling with any of these compilers.
So generally dmd, gdmd and ldmd2(on some distribution ldmd without 2) should have accept same args
So calling <dmd or gdmd or ldmd2> -arg1 -arg2 -arg3 should do the same but with different compilers behind the scene.