DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Mon Oct 8 18:42:43 PDT 2007


Bruce Adams wrote:
> I started out trying to use gdc/cygwin and gave up. The general
> advice I was given was don't do it use dmd. Using gdc on windows puts
> me in a small minority (anyone else tried it, raise your hand now).
> Certainly my brief experince was that gdc is too broken on cygwin to
> use. In my first day of using D I found two compiler bugs one in DMD
> one in gdc. The one in DMD has a workaround the one in gdc was fatal
> but I note it has been fixed so I could try again. Finding compiler
> bugs with "hello world" programs is not a good sign.

I agree that running into compiler bugs always sucks, but please be sure 
and report them to bugzilla if they aren't already there. Otherwise, 
they'll get forgotten and never fixed.



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