Running/Interpreting C on top of the JVM?

Question

Is there a way to run plain c code on top of the JVM?
Not connect via JNI, running, like you can run ruby code via JRuby, or javascript via Rhino.

If there is no

Answer 1

Updated 2012-01-26: According to this page on the company's site the product has been bought out and is no longer available.

Yes.

Here's a commercial C compiler that produces JVM bytecode.