On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, dsimcha <dsim...@yahoo.com> wrote: > == Quote from Nick Sabalausky (a...@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.
