Feq questions about the D language

[Iain Buclaw]

On 13 March 2012 09:07, Don Clugston <dac at nospam.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/12 01:20, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> On 3/11/2012 2:57 PM, Caligo wrote:
>>>
>>> And just for the record, there are software projects that are millions
>>> of lines of code in C/C++ and have ZERO workarounds. Also, I have
>>> never encountered a bug in GCC when programming in C++, even when
>>> trying out the latest C++11.
>>
>>
>> GCC itself is fairly bug free,
>
>
> I had used g++ for a grand total of three hours before I found a wrong-code
> regression -- the absolute worst category of bug. I've never found a DMD bug
> which was significantly worse than that one.
>
> GCC is much more mature than the DMD front-end, of course, but I don't think
> it's any more bug-free than the DMD back-end.
>
>
> but then again I don't push it that hard.

The only bug I've been bitten by is bug #323 -
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=323
Which has only recently been somewhat addressed in the latter versions
of GCC (though requires frontend language support that I haven't
decided whether it's worth adding - so is still technically a bug in
GDC ;)


Other than that - I've found that GCC is *very* good at finding bugs
in the DMD Frontend codegen that I have both raised and fixed (or
fixed by Walter and co) since I picked up the project.  This is in
part due to it's strict tree checking in development builds.


Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

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