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by tux3 298 days ago
Sean Baxter's circle compiler uses LLVM as a backend, but I believe the rest is from scratch.

Arguably these days having a clear frontend/backend separation is good compiler architecture. It might slow down compile times a bit, but it's worth the cost.
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vkazanov 298 days ago
So it sounds like he wrote the frontend of a cpp compiler? There's a lot of work in other layers as well.
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WalterBright 298 days ago
It wouldn't have made much sense to write the preprocessor these days, too, but it is part of the C++ compiler. Unless integrating it with the C++ lexer for speed purposes, as I did.
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