dmd 2.064.2 stuck compiling code?

[michaelc37]

On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 08:30:05 UTC, Arjan wrote:
> On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 04:17:25 UTC, Brian Schott wrote:
>> On Monday, 18 November 2013 at 02:18:34 UTC, michaelc37 wrote:
>>> I have an issue where dmd v2.064.2 never finishes compiling 
>>> (hangs)
>>>
>>> i'm trying to recompile my patched up fork of qtd 
>>> (https://github.com/michaelc37/qtd) but the code never stops 
>>> compiling (it was compiling with v2.063.2).
>>>
>>> any suggestions on how to investigate this further?
>>
>> Possibly related: https://github.com/Hackerpilot/DCD/issues/79
>
> I had the same problems when building Dscanner on OpenSUSE(32) 
> bits, on FreeBSD-9(64) it core dumps. The backtrace shows an 
> endless list of:
> #0 0x0.. FuncDeclaration::overloadInsert ()
> #1 0x0.. FuncDeclaration::overloadInsert ()
> #2 0x0.. FuncDeclaration::overloadInsert ()
> ..
> Haven't had the time to investigate this further.
> This happens with dmd build form the the master/HEAD(ff81ae9)

i think i tracked down the commit that caused this issue for me

it seems to be this.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/5f0c3a12de2a15116fac109b39912bfcb22842b8

using a dmd built on the commit before it does not hang.
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/commit/435af3171f488c7857c2d2859c1c99981de19506