On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 23:01:49 +0300, Jarrett Billingsley
<[email protected]> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:11 PM, dsimcha <[email protected]> wrote:
== Quote from Nick Sabalausky ([email protected])'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?
