GDC has just landed v2.098.0-beta.1 into GCC

[Luís Ferreira]

On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 19:37 +0000, Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d-
announce wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The latest version of the D language has [now 
> landed](
> https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=5fee5ec362f7a243f459e6378fd49dfc89dc9fb5
> ) in GCC.
> 
> As the D front-end for GDC is now itself written in D, in order 
> to build GDC, you will need a working GDC compiler (GCC version 
> 9.1 or later).
> 
> Of the tested ports that work for bootstrapping the new 
> front-end, x86_64-linux-gnu is the most battle tested.  Others 
> that have been checked and verified to work include:
> - mips-linux-gnu
> - powerpc64le-linux-gnu
> - sparcv9-sun-solaris
> - x86_64-portbld-freebsd12
> - amd64-openbsd6.9
> - x86_64-netbsd
> - x86_64-apple-darwin20.
> 
> **Why specifically v2.098.0-beta.1?**  No real reason, other than 
> it was just the last time that I had synchronized my [development 
> branch](https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/gcc/tree/ibuclaw/gdc)
> with upstream dmd.
> 
> You can expect this to be bumped again to the latest commit made 
> to [dmd master](https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commits/master) in 
> the coming week, and for GDC to closely follow DMD development 
> until around end of March when we'll switch over to whatever will 
> be the upcoming DMD version just before the GCC-12 release freeze.
> 
> ---
> ```
> $ git show --oneline --stat
>   5fee5ec362f d: Import dmd b8384668f, druntime e6caaab9, phobos 
> 5ab9ad256 (v2.098.0-beta.1)
>   ...
>   2803 files changed, 338878 insertions(+), 193928 deletions(-)
> ```
> ---
> 
> **What's left in the pipeline?**  For the next six months until 
> May, its just the usual, too many things to do, too little time 
> to do them.  I haven't forgotten about other improvements that I 
> started looking into at the beginning of this development cycle:
> - Hosting release binaries on the gdc project site (or github, or 
> both)
> - Updating the compilers on the explorer site to version 11
> - Add more targets to the gdc build infrastructure.
> 
> If you think you could contribute in any way, please don't 
> hesitate to jump on the 
> [#gdc](https://dlang.slack.com/archives/C6LTP6MV1) channel on the 
> Dlang Slack or [#d.gdc](irc://irc.libera.chat/d.gdc) on 
> Libera.Chat IRC and ask about it.
> 
> See you around at the next release or update.
> 
> Regards,
> Iain.
> 
> ##### If you are interested in helping support ongoing 
> development or infrastructure costs for CI and platform testing, 
> you can do so by making a donation to the [D Language 
> Foundation](https://dlang.org/foundation/donate.html), 
> approximations of costs into USD are up on my [Github Sponsor 
> page](https://github.com/sponsors/ibuclaw/).

Great news! That is awesome

-- 
Sincerely,
Luís Ferreira @ lsferreira.net

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