LDC 1.13.0-beta1

[kinke]

On Tuesday, 6 November 2018 at 15:08:47 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
wrote:
> 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:
>>> 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?

Yep, and still is, as I said. We don't use any MinGW functions at 
all, so nothing changes in this regard, no need to worry about 
MinGW's 80-bit `long double`, their different C++ mangling, their 
.a static library format or their DWARF debug info. You're still 
targeting windows-msvc. We only need the MinGW .def files because 
Microsoft shamefully doesn't allow distribution of their static & 
import libs.

As stated in the readme, using the MS toolchain is obviously 
still supported.