LLVM 2.6 Release!

dsimcha dsimcha at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 24 07:42:42 PDT 2009


== Quote from Andrei Alexandrescu (SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org)'s article
> Justin Johansson wrote:
> > Looks like Christmas is arriving early this year folks ...
> > just got this pressy from the LLVM team/Chris Lattner in my inbox.
> >
> > I'm sure a number of D people will be excited about this announcement.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Justin Johansson
> >
> >
> > Hi LLVM Friends, Fans, Followers and Fanatics,
> >
> > LLVM 2.6 is live! You can download it here:
> > http://llvm.org/releases/  and read about it here:
> > http://llvm.org/releases/2.6/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
> This is awesome news, and I'm glad the the ldc people are keeping an eye
> on D2.
> I wonder what's the status regarding exceptions on Windows or Windows
> support in general. I couldn't find information through a summary search
> through the release notes. My understanding is that currently there is
> no release at all of ldc. Is that correct?
> Andrei

Other than possible lack of manpower, I don't see why the LDC people don't just
use setjmp/longjmp exception handling in the interim.  It seems like a good
"better than nothing" solution until LLVM gets fixed properly.



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