DMD 1.004 release

[Andrei Alexandrescu (See Website For Email)]

Walter Bright wrote:
 > Bob W wrote:
 >>>> Sounds like you work under Windows... :o)
 >> ..........
 >>> Yep, looks like he does (mostly) :).
 >>
 >> He is a smart guy who probably does not feel like
 >> beta testing operating systems. Or maybe he just
 >> ran out of coffee too often while waiting for penguin's
 >> favorite compiler and linker to finish their jobs ....   ;-)
 >
 > g++ is a slow compiler, and ld is a really slow linker, and I'm just
 > more used to windows quirks than linux quirks.
 >
 > But the worst thing about linux development is gdb. gdb's user interface
 > seems stuck in 1983 era thinking. I can't even get the thing to display
 > the register contents. It won't pick up the program arguments from the
 > command line. Either I'm stupid, all this is missing from the
 > documentation, or gdb really is terrible.
 >
 > I do all my debugging on windows. Even horrible old windbg is a decade
 > ahead of gdb.

True, but now there's zero: www.zero-bugs.com.

 > I do like gcov, though.

And gprof too.


Andrei