[phobos] I think we need to make an emergency release

[Steve Schveighoffer]

I think I know the problem with the code. I'll check in a fix, and update the 
bug, see if it helps.

-Steve



----- Original Message ----
> From: Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Sent: Tue, August 24, 2010 3:35:09 PM
> Subject: [phobos] I think we need to make an emergency release
> 
> David suggested we need an emergency release for the array appender
> bug, and  I'm inclined to agree with him. My personal experience is
> that it makes 2.048  unusable, and I've had to go back to 2.047. Here's
> the bug:
> 
> Bug 4681  Appender access violation
> This is a really horrible memory corruption  regression, caused by svn
> 1813. Is there any reason we shouldn't just roll  that back?
> 
> ---
> BTW, one compiler bug popped up in the last release,  too. Fairly
> obscure though. I created a patch:
> 4655 Regression(1.063,  2.048) goto to a try block ICEs
> 
> I also made a patch for this compiler bug  from three releases back:
> 4302 Regression(1.061, 2.046) compiler errors using  startsWith in CTFE
> 
> All other known compiler regressions were introduced  in 2.041 or  earlier.
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