[dmd-internals] Recommended patch list

[Walter Bright]

Now it fails elsewhere, see bugzilla 2511 for test case.

Rainer Schuetze wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have added a fix to the patch for 2511, that makes your test case 
> compile. Have you tried it? I thought you'd see the stream of bugzilla 
> changes from the bugs-mailing list...
>
> Rainer
>
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> That wraps it up for this list, except for 2511. Thanks everyone who 
>> submitted these patches.
>>
>> Don Clugston wrote:
>>> There are some great patches in Bugzilla at the moment. A couple of
>>> infamous forward reference bugs
>>> that have been hurting Phobos development. Also, all known compiler
>>> segfaults have patches in this list.
>>> The first block of patches is the most important.
>>>
>>> 3935 opBinary is instantiated with "="
>>> 190 Cannot forward reference typedef/alias in default value for
>>> function parameter
>>>   also fixes
>>>   3979 Order-of-compilation and forward reference errors
>>> 4652 Compiler hangs on template with zero-length tuple and another 
>>> argument
>>>    also fixes
>>>    4676 Overload resolution rejects valid code when mixing variadics,
>>> non-variadics
>>> 4564 ICE on undefined variable in foreach over 0 .. undef
>>> 3493 Segfault(cast.c) Forward reference with type inference, D1 only.
>>>
>>> 2511 Covariant return type doesn't work with circular import
>>> 2716 Confusion of auto and scope as the class attribute
>>> 4278 allow inlining of super calls (undo limitations of bug3500's fix)
>>> 2477 Trailing comma in array literal sometimes accepted, sometimes not
>>>
>>> 4291 Pure functions cannot access mixed in variables
>>> 4177 __ctfe can't be used in pure functions
>>>
>>> <Haven't tested this one as it's Linux only, but looks impressive>
>>> 4620 C++ constructor and template mangling, C++ ABI patch
>>>  it should also fix this next one, though I have included a patch for
>>> 3046 anyway
>>>  3046 Segfault with C++ static variable (Linux only)
>>>
>>>   
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