Should GCC 12.1 release notes contain D updates?

Iain Buclaw ibuclaw at gdcproject.org
Wed Aug 17 18:53:13 UTC 2022


On Monday, 1 August 2022 at 21:15:09 UTC, singingbush wrote:
> On Saturday, 21 May 2022 at 04:11:41 UTC, Chris Piker wrote:
>> Hi GDC
>>
>> Looking over the gcc release notes for version 12.1 here: 
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-12/changes.html I didn't see any 
>> mention of gdc supporting newer versions of the d-language.  
>> That seems like big deal, is there any way to get a mention in 
>> the release notes?
>>
>> I did see that GDC is now required to make GDC here: 
>> https://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html so I presume a 
>> much newer version of the front end is supported.
>>
>> Thanks,
>
> The announcement on the forum here: 
> https://forum.dlang.org/thread/qgrchukzyceflenrrmct@forum.dlang.org stated that the D front-end for GCC 12.1 was updated to 2.100.0-rc.1. It would be good to get more visibility on it.

GCC 12.2 will be out on Friday (updated front-end to 2.100.1), 
I've gotten round to writing up changelog notes for the gcc 
website, will leave it a couple days before pushing.


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