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Since the [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02108.html initial submission] of the D front-end to GCC, this aims to keep a record of the current status of both policy and technical review.


== Patch Approval Status ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 80%;"
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Patch Number
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Patch Version
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Patch Description
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Status
 |-
 | 001
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02122.html v1]
 | The front-end (DMD) language implementation and license.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 002
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02127.html v1]
 | The front-end (GDC) implementation.
 | Technical Review
 |-
 | 003
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02128.html v1]
 | The front-end (GDC) changelogs.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 004
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02129.html v1]
 | The front-end (GDC) config, makefile, and manpages.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 005
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02131.html v1]
 | GCC configuration file changes and documentation.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 006
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02130.html v1]
 | Add D language support to GCC proper.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 007
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02132.html v1]
 | Add D language support to GCC targets.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 008
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02140.html v1]
 | D2 Testsuite tests.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 009
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02133.html v1]
 | D2 Testsuite Dejagnu files.
 | Approved
 |-
 | 010
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02138.html v1]
 | The D runtime library and license.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 011
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02134.html v1]
 | GCC builtins and runtime support (part of D runtime)
 | Technical Review
 |-
 | 012
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02139.html v1]
 | The Phobos runtime library and license.
 | Pending
 |-
 | 013
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-05/msg02135.html v1]
 | Phobos config, makefiles, and testsuite.
 | Technical Review
|}


== Change Requests Status ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 80%;"
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Change Request
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Change Status
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Change Notes
 |-
 | GCC steering committee approval of accepting the FE contribution and appointing a FE maintainer.
 | [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-06/msg00968.html Issue raised]
 |-
 | Create a GDC svn/git branch on GCC for platform integration testing.
 | Proposal
 | Requires approval of the SC.
 |-
 | GCC-specific files in D runtime (gcc.builtins, etc) should have the GCC Runtime Library Exception notice.
 | Done
 | [https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/493 GDC#493]
 |-
 | There appear to be various GPLv2 notices with old FSF addresses.  Where those are on source files (as opposed to generated files), they should be updated to the usual GPLv3+ notice for GCC.
 | Done
 | [https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/493 GDC#493], [https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/495 GDC#495]
 |-
 | DMD front end has functions with names such as error, but no useful i18n will actually occur because GDC formats the messages with xvasprintf before passing to the common diagnostic code.  The DMD front end should be disabled, to prevent exgettext from extracting and putting messages in gcc.pot that won't actually be translated.
 | Needs Action
 |
* Add DMD sources to list of sources disabled for translation, [https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/499 GDC#499]
* Improve GDC diagnostic to use <code>diagnostic_report_diagnostic()</code> directly, [https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/pull/497 GDC#497]
 |-
 | <code>Target::critsecsize</code> should have its code belonging to the <code>gcc/config/</code> configuration for each target as a target hook returning the required information, not in the D front end code.
 | Needs Action
 |
* See [https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-06/msg01086.html list of changes] required to implement.
* For the worst case (unsupported target), should set the target hook to default to returning a large enough buffer size, e.g: <code>64</code>.
|}

== Other Maintenance Tasks ==

{| class="wikitable" style="width: 80%;"
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Change Request
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Change Status
 ! style="text-align:left;"| Change Notes
 |-
 | Create a dmd-cxx git branch on dlang/dmd to host GDC's forked C++ front end sources.
 | Needs Action
 |
* Create a new branch based on dmd/2.068
* Merge [https://github.com/dlang/dmd/tree/199b11cc15ee7fffc0cdc48fb1a6efec88c319c1 all changes] during 2.069 development up until the switch-over.
* Merge or cherry-pick in backports that have been applied on the GDC branch.
|}

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