For the adventurous: News from the LDC/Linux front

Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Thu Jul 10 07:09:24 PDT 2014


On 10 July 2014 15:00, David Nadlinger via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 9 July 2014 at 10:01:15 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>>
>> Those are probably best news from D world I have heard in last few months!
>> Has anyone tried that on largish projects? Using GDC with --gc-sections has
>> resulted in broken binaries sometimes but most likely it was the same
>> ModuleInfo issue. Wonder how reliable it is in LDC.
>
>
> So far, I'm not aware of any conceptual problems or implementation issues. I
> tested it on a some larger projects using Thrift and a few other libraries.
> But as always, there might be some odd cases out there I simply missed,
> especially as linker behavior tends to vary quite a bit between different
> versions of binutils (and interestingly also different distributions, as
> some tend to come with patched versions or adjusted defaults).
>
> All in all, I can only encourage you to test this on your own projects and
> report any issues. This is also the idea behind turning the feature on by
> default for now. Note that in contrast to GDC, we actually consider any
> issues caused by this to be a bug (Iain and I agree to disagree on this).
>
> David

Indeed we do!

Instead I am consulting with the GCC devs to fix LTO support. >:)

Iain


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