dmd 1.054 and 2.038 release

[Don]

Moritz Warning wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 21:22:58 +0100, grauzone wrote:
> 
>> bearophile wrote:
>>> grauzone:
>>>> But I have a problem: the compiler is either extremely slow for me, or
>>>> is stuck in an endless loop. All it does is to slowly allocate memory.
>>>> I aborted the compilation after ~ 20 minutes and 2 GB RAM allocation.
>>>> This wasn't the case with dmd 1.053, where it only took 5-10 seconds
>>>> to compile. Can anyone confirm this?
>>> Show the code!
>> I was going to say "but it's hundreds of modules", but then I tried to
>> compile some other big hog of code: Tango.
>>
>> And I found compiling this file hangs:
>> http://dsource.org/projects/tango/browser/trunk/tango/core/tools/
> Demangler.d?rev=5248
>> The exact command line for this was:
>> dmd -c -I../tango/core -I.. -I../tango/core/vendor -release
>> -oftango-core-tools-Demangler-release.o ../tango/core/tools/Demangler.d
>>
>> Again, could anyone confirm this?
>>
>> Anyway, no time for this anymore, it's going to be 2010 soon here.
>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
> Someone reported the regression already:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3663

It's caused by the patch for bug 400.