dmd 2.029 release

[Georg Wrede]

Don wrote:
> Georg Wrede wrote:
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Lutger wrote:
>>>> what the hell...this code can't be human.
>>>
>>> I was replaced by Colossus years ago.
>>
>> Michael A. Jackson wouldn't approve 1175 gotos in 113 files.
> 
> It'd be really funny to pass it through one of those "code quality" 
> metrics, one of the ones with a ridiculously heavy penalty for using 
> goto. I think it'd tell you that DMD source is almost the lowest-quality 
> code on the planet. <g>

Yeah. But now I'm getting a bad conscience, this is beginning to look 
like Walter-bashing... :-)

> Actually, looking through the DMD source it becomes obvious that goto is 
> really not a problem at all. The lack of comments is much more of a 
> problem. (Especially with files with names like "e2ir.c". What the heck 
> is "fltables.c", "cdxxx.c", "elxxx.c" ?). Even so, it's mostly not that 
> difficult to understand.

I guess Walter has to keep alternating between ASM, C and D. And a lot 
of ASM coding is nothing more than a bunch of MOV and JMP stuff. And 
file naming conventions here look like what one typically finds in 
development code (before some pre-publishing guy has tidyed it up with a 
lot of global search&replaces). And, after all, the C files never were 
meant to be public anyway.

Actually, the one interesting question might be, would rewriting this 
code in a structured fashion (I mean, removing the gotos) make it 
slower? (Not that I'd be suggesting Walter should do it. Just an 
academic question.)