Large number of tests failing - 64bit LDC with MSVC - Append Operator

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

Hi Kevin!

On Wednesday, 25 February 2015 at 00:02:33 UTC, Kevin Brogan 
wrote:
> I've been able to successfully build LDC on 64 bit windows 
> using msvc, but I've noticed that a large number of test suites 
> fail with a segmentation fault instead of a regular error 
> result.
>
> I've been able to determine that many of the segmentation 
> faults is due to the append operator.
>
> The fault only occurs when using a variable, and only when two 
> append operators are used in the same statement.
>
> I was wondering if anyone can replicate this in their 
> environment or have an idea of how to determine the cause.
>
> An example is here:
>
> import std.c.stdio : printf;
> void main()
> {
>     string variable = "variable";
>     printf("made a string\n");
>
>     string result;
>
>     result = "before " ~ variable;
>     printf("before\n");
>
>     result = variable ~ " after";
>     printf("after\n");
>
>     result = "before " ~ "novar" ~ " after";
>     printf("novar\n");
>
>     result = "before " ~ variable ~ " after"; // this line will 
> seg fault
>     printf("crashes before getting here\n");
> }

I check this. Please note that the Win64 version of LDC has still 
alpha quality. Every help is welcome here!

Regards,
Kai