betterC and noboundscheck

[codephantom]

On Friday, 24 November 2017 at 05:01:17 UTC, Basile B. wrote:
> On Friday, 24 November 2017 at 00:17:31 UTC, codephantom wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 at 15:10:40 UTC, Oleg B wrote:
>>> If I add -noboundscheck flag all works fine.
>>>
>>> dmd version is 2.076.1
>>>
>>> Why -betterC flag not 'include' -noboundscheck flag?
>>> It's bug or in some cases it's useful?
>>
>>
>> Interestingly, ldc2 will compile this ok, without the 
>> -noboundscheck flag
>>
>> btw. you should start using: boundscheck=off/on/safeonly flag 
>> instead i believe.
>>
>> https://dlang.org/dmd-windows.html#switch-boundscheck
>
> It's b/c LDC2 doesn't have the most recent betterC features. It 
> works just like it worked in older DMD release (e.g w 2.075), 
> when betterC was "inexact" / "mostly unimplemented"


Thanks. I didn't take that into account (was using LDC 1.5.0 
..based on 2.075.1)

Getting used to monthly compiler updates is a real challenge.. 
not something I'm used to ;-)