gcc 4.5.2 or DragonEgg for GDC?

[Jason E. Aten]

On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:31:14 +0000, dsimcha wrote:

> == Quote from Jason E. Aten (j.e.aten at gmail.com)'s article
>> Has anyone ported GDC over to gcc 4.5.2 by chance? Or even better,
>> already gotten GDC to work with DragonEgg (the LLVM plugin).
>> I know about LDC2 of course, but DragonEgg would obviate the need for
>> it because DragonEgg makes LLVM codegen a plugin to the GCC framework.
>> If not I may try to get this going myself.  Any guidance?  All
>> suggestions welcome.
> 
> GDC already works (somewhat) with 4.5.2.  You need to compile it from
> source, though.  On Linux, this isn't hard.  However, 4.5.2 is generally
> more buggy than 4.4.5.  (These are the two versions I test and report
> bugs on somewhat frequently.)

That good news.  I didn't realize that 4.5.2 was so buggy.  How bad is it 
-- are there alot of showstoppers, or are the bugs easy to workaround?