Insight into the DMD back-end

[Stephan]

On 07.12.2010 12:49, Walter Bright wrote:
> Stephan wrote:
>> On 07.12.2010 11:52, Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Stephan wrote:
>>>> I often ran into this strange behaviour when using -O optimization
>>>> without knowing where it came from and it is so disturbing when i
>>>> think of people newly getting interested in D making the experience
>>>> when trying to compare it with C/C++ and then finding out the
>>>> optimization makes strange things. I think out of a image perspective
>>>> such bugs must be high priority, ESPECIALLY if it lies there for
>>>> 25years already.
>>>
>>> I've had probably 10,000 bug reports over the years and this has never
>>> appeared as one before now. Thank you for reporting it.
>>
>> Possibly because it was so hard to nail down and reproduce in a simple
>> testcase. Slightly changing the code made it disappear every now and
>> then again.
>
> I do appreciate the small test case, too.

Its fixed! Thanks a lot! That will hopefully make D perform better in a 
benchmark vs. C that i make.