Migrating dmd to D?

[David Nadlinger]

On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 14:55:19 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
> On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 14:47:55 UTC, David Nadlinger 
> wrote:
>> You simply use another host system (e.g. Windows/Linux x86) 
>> until the new backend/runtime is stable enough for the 
>> compiler to self-host.
>>
>> David
>
> And what if you *don't* have a cross compiler ? You compile the 
> D subset (bootstrapper) in C and off you go (provided you have 
> a reasonable C compiler on that platform).

I think you are misunderstanding something here.

You need a backend for the new platform anyway for a D compiler 
on it to be of any use. Or do you envision building x86 D 
binaries on <fancy_new_architecture> to be an important use case?

David