Lion-compatibilty emergency release, or put warning on download page?

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Wed Aug 3 11:00:18 PDT 2011


On Aug 3, 2011, at 8:06 AM, David Nadlinger wrote:

> As you might know, the current druntime release contains a GC bug which causes hard to track down crashes due to premature garbage collection in combination with the OS X Lion ASLR, which is enabled by default on all systems now. The problem is well understood, and a fix has already been merged into master (https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/43).
> 
> Given that there are already three people who have independently hit the issue (Magnus Hetland just raised the topic on D.learn again) and the elusive nature of the bug, is this severe enough to warrant an emergency bugfix release? Or would it be possible to put a warning on the download page, suggesting to use Git master for applications deployed to Lion?

Is this fix alone sufficient for the test suite to pass on Lion?  I blew away my Lion partition a while back and haven't had a chance to re-create and test.


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