ldc 0.9.1 released
Robert Clipsham
robert at octarineparrot.com
Wed May 27 12:29:15 PDT 2009
Christian Kamm wrote:
> The release 0.9.1 of LDC, the LLVM based compiler for the D programming
> language, contains the following major improvements:
>
> * lots of bug fixes (http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc/report/15)
> * x86-64 support is mature
> * inline asm improved (we now define D_Inline_Asm)
> * cross-compilation support
> * uses boehm-gc during compilation (x86-32 only)
> * D specific optimizations:
> * turn GC allocations to allocas if possible
> * simplify or remove certain calls to D runtime functions
>
> The command line interface of LDC now has added options in line with other
> LLVM based tools. Please use the ldmd wrapper if you want a drop-in
> replacement for DMD.
>
> Linux x86-32 download:
> http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9.1-x86_32.tar.bz2
>
> Linux x86-64 download:
> http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9.1-x86_64.tar.bz2
>
> Tomas Lindquist Olsen
> Christian Kamm
> Frits van Bommel
> Kelly Wilson
Congratulations on your hard work! This is a really big step for LDC and
D, so thanks!
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