Which compiler are you using to compile the d-font-end?



Burton Radons wrote:

> Status update.  The last few days I've been looking into various intermediate representation systems.  I'll be going to some variety in the future, but for now I decided to stick with the crappy stack-based code it's currently producing.  I was actually interested in LCC's system, but when I looked at the produced code I saw that it was really horrible.  This is good, as it's comparable to GCC in the computer language shootout, so producing cruddy code is not a death knell by any means, although it has a bad worst-case.
>
> All integer arithmetic is done, and some of floating-point.  Locals are in and I'm just now working on arrays and my next hurdle is to start to port, compile and use Phobos.

It's that time again.  Classes are working, as is TypeInfo.  TypeInfo took quite a bit of code and looking-into to get operational; you have to look for a VarExp referring to a TypeInfoDeclaration and output it in the module, generating at least an instance.  I go all out and generate both the instance and a subclass of TypeInfo to make everything on-the-level; partial subtyping works (creating a specialised vtable but using TypeInfo as the class), but is just asking for problems to show up in low-level user code.

The milestone I'm aiming for here is to finish up the arrays without doing any stubbing on the way.  Once that is done and I put up version 0.0.2, the only missing language features will be exceptions and threading concerns, long, complex, and associative arrays, switch, and other things.  This would make me about 30% finished, so the body is already done, with the easier gaps ahead.

Jan Knepper wrote:
> You mean, you are not interested in the GLUE layer for the D-front-end and
> the GCC-back-end?
> What are you writing a back-end for?

Actually, I'm rather glad he does, it'll show me how to do it on other platforms, hopefully.

Hi, BTW.  I stumbled into this yesterday, and decided D is definitely worth looking at, and I'm already thinking of porting to a different operating system (VMS, and that's why an already written backend might be a good thing to have around).

"Richard Levitte" <levitte@stacken.kth.se> wrote in message news:avt0vk$u7q$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> Hi, BTW.  I stumbled into this yesterday, and decided D is definitely worth looking at, and I'm already thinking of porting to a different operating system (VMS, and that's why an already written backend might be a good thing to have around).

Glad to have you join us! -Walter