D to C compiler?

[Denis Koroskin]

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:01:49 +0300, Jarrett Billingsley <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Err... Isn't generated C code cross-platform? Code generated for Linux could be used to compile code for Windows, no?