Towards 0.12.0; release an alpha now?

[Benjamin Thaut]

Am 08.10.2013 07:21, schrieb Kai Nacke:
> On Monday, 7 October 2013 at 07:07:12 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote:
>> Has there been any further progress on windows x64 exception handling?
>
> Hi Benjamin!
>
> There is some progress but not too much. My LLVM patch for EH handling
> had 5 parts and of these 5 parts only 3 passed the review and I could
> commit them. For the remaining 2 parts:
>
> - a convincing argument for the LLVM reviewers would be clang support
> - there is a bug in the stack alignment code which leads to compile time
> failures
> - dead epilogue code is still removed which leads to runtime crashes
>
> On LDC side exception chaining is not implemented (but this is not a
> major issue compared with the other topics).
>
> I am still working on these topics - I currently try to fix the stack
> alignment issue.
>
> Kai

Hi,

thank you very much for the update and all your work. I still hope that 
LDC will become my compiler of choice for Windows x64. Currently dmd is 
the only viable option for this plattform because the last working GDC 
release still uses the 2.060 frontend.