Wasn't someone trying to work on a C backend for DMD?

[Daniel Murphy]

"Nick Sabalausky" <SeeWebsiteToContactMe at semitwist.com> wrote in message 
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>> It was never a serious project unfortunately, just an experiment.
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> After having done the experiment, do you feel it's a promising approach? 
> Are there things you figure would be better done differently?
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I actually found it a lot easier than expected.  Most of the constructs that 
survive to the glue layer are c constructs, which naturally map very well to 
c code.  Writing the actual code is quite straightforward, it's very similar 
to what is done in 'toCBuffer' for di generation.  I never hit a roadblock, 
so it should be easy for someone else to continue on from there (as Adam 
has).

That said, reconfiguring gdc or ldc to output c (or to target the intended 
platform) is probably a better idea than writing a new c backend.  Either 
way, druntime needs to be ported.