supporting DMD-1.016 and DMD-2.000 with the same source code

[Thomas Kuehne]

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Walter Bright schrieb am 2007-06-18:
> Thomas Kuehne wrote:
>> Below are a few code samples that might help you to make your code
>> compatible with DMD-1.016 as well as DMD-2.000.

[...]

> This is why I put the string aliases into dmd 1.016. Then, just replace 
> the char[] with string, and it'll work with both 1.0 and 2.0.

[...]

> I fixed the 1.015 compiler to accept the () as being optional. So, use 
> the () for both, and it should work.

The main problem is that both changes aren't yet incorporated into GDC
and unlike GDC DMD can't generate 64bit code.

Thomas


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