[dmd-beta] Do a new release?

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Mon Dec 6 22:28:00 PST 2010



Don Clugston wrote:
> On 7 December 2010 00:18, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>   
>> It's been a month, and we've got 64 bugs logged as fixed. Should we do a
>> release?
>>
>>     
>
> I think we should get ready for a release.
>
> There is a backend wrong-code bug which I think is urgent.
> Bug 5294 "-O optimization breaks for loop"
> I've done some work on it but unfortunately haven't got a patch yet. I
> won't be able to do any more work on it for nearly a day.
>   

I'm not sure how to fix that one yet, but it has been there for 25 years 
now, so I am not sure it is urgent!

> These other patches for wrong-code bugs should also probably be included:
>
> 4389 ICE(constfold.c, expression.c), or wrong code: string~=dchar in CTFE
> mitigation only:
> 4860 Taking delegates to a member function broken if method is also
> aliased in from a base class
>
>   

I'll check those out.


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