DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

Don nospam at nospam.com.au
Wed Jul 9 04:16:13 PDT 2008


Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>>> Mostly bug fixing.
>>>
>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.032.zip
>> Again a stable release that breaks Tango :
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2207

The probably related bug #2208 also breaks Tango.

>>
>> It would be nice if the release process could stop this from happening.
>>
Yup. But I would have caught these before release if I hadn't had an 
email problem.

> 
> There is another one triggered by the Tango unittests:
> 
> tango/core/Variant.d(361): Error: functions cannot return static array
> char[3u]
> 
> I'm not able to minimize it out of the box though. Maybe this is a result of
> the compiler becoming stricter, but it is any case a breaking change.

Not necessarily. It might have uncovered a pre-existing bug. (Any 
accepts-invalid bug is very likely to break broken code).




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