LDC now supports Windows MSVC x86/x64 as first class targets

[Corey Lubin via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Saturday, 19 March 2016 at 13:23:48 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I'm proud to announce that MSVC is fully supported now for LDC 
> trunk. Rainer Schuetze has implemented MSVC-compatible 
> exception handling (available since brand-new LLVM 3.8) for 
> LDC, so that we have fully working exception chaining now on 
> Win64. Along the way, he also added 32-bit MSVC support and a 
> TLS alignment bugfix for Windows < 8.1 (a Windows 
> bug/wontfix!). It requires a bleeding edge LLVM though, as 
> Rainer's work has uncovered a few LLVM bugs which didn't make 
> it into 3.8 final.
> So a round of applause for Rainer and the LLVM devs, excellent 
> job, thank you very much! Full PDB support for LLVM is also 
> underway...

Truly great news. Thank you Rainer, if you're reading this. (I 
don't think you ever take a break, do you? :])

Awesome progress, LDC team. Your challenging work is much 
appreciated.


(P.S.: On a related front, any news on the Android on ARM work? 
Last I read, my understanding was that the problem you were 
running into was a lack of proper LLVM TLS support for the 
platform? Is my recollection correct?)