On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 14:55:19 UTC, SomeDude wrote:
On Saturday, 2 March 2013 at 14:47:55 UTC, David Nadlinger
wrote:
You simply use another host system (e.g. Windows/Linux x86)
until the new backend/runtime is stable enough for the
compiler to self-host.
David
And what if you *don't* have a cross compiler ? You compile the
D subset (bootstrapper) in C and off you go (provided you have
a reasonable C compiler on that platform).
I think you are misunderstanding something here.
You need a backend for the new platform anyway for a D compiler
on it to be of any use. Or do you envision building x86 D
binaries on <fancy_new_architecture> to be an important use case?
David
