ldc 0.9.1 released

Jarrett Billingsley jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com
Wed May 27 12:31:53 PDT 2009


On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Christian Kamm
<kamm-incasoftware at removethis.de> 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

Rock on!


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