LDC 1.13.0-beta1

[Guillaume Piolat]

On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 14:46:25 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Monday, 5 November 2018 at 13:53:50 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
> wrote:
>> On Friday, 2 November 2018 at 21:04:13 UTC, kinke wrote:
>>> Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.13:
>>>
>>> * Based on D 2.083.0.
>>> * The Windows packages are now fully self-sufficient, i.e., a 
>>> Visual Studio/C++ Build Tools installation isn't required 
>>> anymore.
>>
>> Very cool! And very scary too, we'll have to verify the 
>> transcendantal precision and memcpy performance :)
>
> Don't worry, we're not using anything from the MinGW runtime 
> itself - just functions exported by the MS DLLs and some 
> minimal startup/shutdown skeleton (`mainCRTStartup` entrypoint 
> etc.). We (incl. DMD) are just using their .def files as basis 
> for the generated import libraries.

I don't understand, llvm_exp for example translate to a call to 
the C stdlib exp() IIRC. That is currently in the MS runtime, no?