On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 5:01 AM, 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.
I would think a C backend would be converting exceptions into portable setjmp/longjmp. That's the only way to emulate exceptions in C as far as I know. Not so? --bb
