LDC 0.9 released

[Moritz Warning]

On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:21:15 +0100, Christian Kamm wrote:

> The first version of LDC (http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc), the LLVM
> based compiler for version one of the D programming language has been
> released for x86-32 Linux. Get it here:
> http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9.tbz2
> 
> We had already announced this release during the Tango conference in
> September (we hope the video of our presentation will be out soon), but
> - as was to be expected - it took a bit longer than planned.
> 
> LDC ships with a precompiled Tango rev 4237 and passes all except two of
> Tango's unittests (io.digest.Md2 and text.locale.Posix fail). DStress
> results also look favorable. The chances are good that your code will
> work with it too!
> 
> There are several known issues, the most severe being:
>  * LDC does not compile DWT successfully for unknown reasons * an LLVM
>  2.4 bug sometimes leads to linker errors when unreachable code is
>    optimized away
>  * LDC doesn’t fully follow the D calling convention (but it's close!) *
>  we inherit every DMD-frontend related bug in the D bug tracker * …
>  there are more in our tracker
> 
> If you encounter a bug, please check our bug tracker and create a new
> ticket if the issue isn’t listed yet. Maybe you are feeling adventurous
> and want to try fixing it yourself; in that case take a look at our
> getting started guide.
> 
> LDC could support other platforms. Furthest along so far are
>  * x86-64 Linux: needs people to start fixing smaller bugs, exception
>  bug
>    (LLVM issue)
>  * x86-32 Mac: small runtime issues, needs tests * x86-32 Windows:
>  exceptions not supported (LLVM issue)
> 
> but support for these platforms won’t improve on its own! Several
> friendly people have offered their help - we need more of those!
>  
> For those with big CTFE memory needs, we have an experimental version of
> LDC available
> http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9-gc.tbz2 which has the
> compile-time garbage collector enabled. In the future, we're going to
> experiment with a forward reference hack, but right now it still
> introduces too many regressions.
>  
> Feedback and questions are appreciated and should go to the mailing
> list: ldc-dev at googlegroups.com. Alternatively, we're often seen in #ldc
> on FreeNode.
> 
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen, Christian Kamm

Great work!
A big leap for the D community!