D to C compiler?

[Jarrett Billingsley]

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, dsimcha <dsimcha at yahoo.com> wrote:
> == Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a at a.a)'s article
>> - Like Denis said, I've heard LLVM is supposed to have a plain-C backend,
>> but I don't know how far along that is or if it's working with LDC (and from
>> what I hear, even LDC itself isn't quite production-ready just yet, but it
>> is movng along quickly).
>
> This is true.  I've played around w/ this C back end w/ some toy programs and and
> it works reasonably well, but I forgot about it.  At any rate, could this be used
> as a temporary kludge to get LDC "working" on unsupported platforms like Windows
> until it works natively?  Basically, LDC for Windows and other unsupported
> platforms would compile the D code to C, and then compile the C code w/ the native
> C compiler for the platform.

The problem with LDC on Windows is not that LLVM doesn't have a
backend for Windows; it does.  It's just that LLVM doesn't yet support
Windows exception handling.  Using the C backend wouldn't help there.