On 19 February 2014 17:16, Craig Dillabaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 18:14:26 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: >> >> On Monday, 10 February 2014 at 18:11:38 UTC, Steve Teale wrote: > > clip > >>> >>> Steve >> >> >> A D compiler that targets JVM or Dalvik directly is my personal dream... > > > I have no idea how hard this would be, but since D has a front-end to the > GNU compiler collection GDC, and the GNU compiler collection has a backend > (presumably) that generated Java byte-code, would it be possible to use the > GDC front end and GCJ backend to do D -> JVM?
Ah, no. That is not the case. GCJ is a native Java compiler. No bytecode going on here... There is JNI support in g++ -> gcj. It's just a question of whether or not we want to add this to gdc (would involve changes to the dfrontend).
