64-bit support

[Christopher Wright]

Tomas Lindquist Olsen wrote:
> Thanx for bringing some attention to my llvmdc project :)
> 
> I'll just jump in here and add that the llvm-gcc project is very mature 
> and in most aspects at least as functional as the original gcc. All the 
> backends however are not yet fully up to speed, but x86 is very well 
> supported. There are some problems with exceptions on other targets 
> afaik, but these are all being sorted out. The just-out LLVM 2.2 release 
> is much closer than they've been before and I suspect 2.3 will put an 
> end to most of the big issues.

Last I checked, llvm exception handling claimed to be rather specific to 
C++'s exception mechanism, since no other languages with exception 
handling had llvm compilers. Do you have any idea how difficult it will 
be to use that system for D?