[dmd-internals] Most important patches before release of DMD2.047

[Brad Roberts]

I'd dearly love to see 3516 (struct dtors don't work for anything interesting)
included, in that list.  It's rather embarrassing that struct copy ctor and dtor
were added pretty much specifically to support making a smart pointer struct,
but it's still not possible.

However, I fear that the fix for it is going to be rather intrusive and would
probably be better off waiting for the subsequent release.

Nice list.

Later,
Brad

On 6/9/2010 1:13 AM, Don Clugston wrote:
> There are a few more critical bugs which should be included in the
> next release if possible.
> 
> (1) This wrong-code bug is subtle and disastrous. It affects even simple C code.
> 3398 Attributes inside a union screws data alignment
> 
> (2) The new _error type should be a killer feature, but if the simple
> cases aren't dealt with, people will scream about it.
> Fixing these test cases will totally change the feel of the release.
> (This doesn't have a patch, since it's a pile of trivial, repetitive
> changes.  But I think the test case is quite useful).
> 4296 Reduce parasitic error messages
> 
> (3) This one is not so critical, but quite embarrassing. It creates
> the impression that user-defined operators haven't been tested at all!
> 4231 Solitary opUnary Postincrement and Postdecrement user defined
> operators are broken.
> 
> Less critical, but utterly trivial to fix are these missing line number bugs:
> 3662 Wrong compile error within struct constructor and C-style initializer
> 4270 Missing line number in 'can only catch class objects' error message
> 
> Of course there are many other worthwhile patches, but I think these
> ones are the most urgent.