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by akireu 1597 days ago
Please clarify what do you mean by incorporating a C compiler. Does this mean you're abandoning the "custom C frontend inside the D compiler" effort in favor of something like clang? To me, the other possibility - having *yet another* C compiler to look out for - is just terrifying.
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WalterBright 1597 days ago
> Does this mean you're abandoning the "custom C frontend inside the D compiler" effort in favor of something like clang?

No. It means the custom C frontend inside the D compiler, with the semantic routines in the D compiler tweaked where necessary to support C semantics.

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akireu 1597 days ago
Won't this require years of busywork? The various intrinsics, function attributes, C compiler args compatibility, ABI profiles for various platforms/systems (including the Windows GCC/VC ABI idiocy?)

upd: Also, I'm not sure that implementing -funsigned-char in 2022 will be all that great for morale!

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WalterBright 1597 days ago
It required maintenance, sure. But most of those extensions can be safely ignored.
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