Weird ouput when using dub / dmd with vscode terminal

[jxel]

On Saturday, 1 February 2020 at 17:45:23 UTC, rikki cattermole 
wrote:
> On 02/02/2020 6:21 AM, jxel wrote:
>> On Friday, 31 January 2020 at 18:06:44 UTC, Aldo wrote:
>>> This bug really need to be fixed asap for the sake of user 
>>> experience.
>> 
>> I agree, the burden falls on the few people that have the VMs 
>> that make all the release builds to update the environment 
>> accordingly for Windows. But they don't seem to have any 
>> interest in doing the work.
>
> This has nothing to do with Optlink.
>
> Nor the release environment.
>
> It is a bug either in dmd or in snn (dmc's libc).
>
> ```
> fputs(("---\n" ~
>     "ERROR: This is a compiler bug.\n" ~
>             "Please report it via 
> https://issues.dlang.org/enter_bug.cgi\n" ~
>             "with, preferably, a reduced, reproducible example 
> and the information below.\n" ~
>     "DustMite (https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite/wiki) 
> can help with the reduction.\n" ~
>     "---\n").ptr, stream);
> ```
>
> Only the first two lines are printing, as it is a CTFE 
> concatenated string that is rather concerning.

Optlink is the only linker that uses OMF libs and DMC's std 
library (both DMC and Optlink are outdated and bit rotten), so it 
is an Optlink only issue. That's not including other issues and 
limitations caused by Optlink.