LLVM 3.6 released - LDC master branch/0.15.1 is ready to use it!

[Dan Olson via Digitalmars-d-announce]

Dan Olson <zans.is.for.cans at yahoo.com> writes:

> "Kai Nacke" <kai at redstar.de> writes:
>
>> Also note that LDC is mentioned in the release notes as one of the
>> projects who are already supporting LLVM 3.6. Just recompile LDC using
>> master branch from GitHub or from the 0.15.1 source.
>>
>> This is the 6th time that LDC and D are mentioned in the LLVM release
>> notes!
>
> That is pretty nice recognition in the release notes for both D and LDC.
> I going to start testing LLVM 3.6 with iOS today.  If it looks good,
> I'll move my forked ios branch from 3.5.1 to 3.6.

I got LLVM 3.6 to work but I couldn't compile with LDC 0.15.1 (looks
like more 3.6 fixes came in after it) and ldc master HEAD compilation
ended up with an LLVM assertion failure on OS X. I backed up to ldc
commit 136fe8d and that worked for both OS X and iOS.