On 20 February 2013 11:24, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote:

On 20 February 2013 08:05, eles <eles@eles.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 11:33:59 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

On 18 February 2013 08:16, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@ubuntu.com> wrote:

  I have it in the works to replace these areas in
gdc (see thread on removing toobj, typinf, and todt) - but it looks like
things will be worse before they start improving again on this instance.

Won't be better to merge rather smaller increments? For example,
merging one commit (from dmd) at a time?

That way, the gdc will follow the dmd commit by commit, and not
only release by release. I hope this would bring easier merging,
as less code changes are required.

What do you think?

That's mid to long term goal  (we currently do the same with gcc development, for instance).  But not until have dropped the remainder dmd backend dependencies from the frontend.

OK, D Frontend is merged.  Phobos and Druntime are yet to be updated, so subsequently it doesn't yet build the library yet.

TODO:

- Add compiler support for new cent/ucent types.

- Test CTFE feature for doing reinterpret casts between int <-> float.  Should work, but untested.

- Phobos / D runtime merge, obviously...

- Once above done, blast through re-implementation of toDt, toObjFile routines that removes all dependencies on DMD backend.

- Breathe and sigh.