gcc 4.5.2 or DragonEgg for GDC?

[Iain Buclaw]

== Quote from Jason E. Aten (j.e.aten at gmail.com)'s article
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 21:48:27 +0000, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > == Quote from Jason E. Aten (j.e.aten at gmail.com)'s article
> >> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:25:24 +0100, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> >> > So far 4.5.2 works for me on XP. I've never tried it with DragonEgg
> >> > though (first time I've heard about it too).
> >> I compiled both gdc and dragonegg together cleanly, which is nice that
> >> the patches they both required to gcc-4.5.2 don't conflict.  Not
> >> surprisingly, the resulting gdc doesn't work right away when using the
> >> dragonegg plugin. But that doesn't mean that this isn't a viable
> >> approach. jaten at afarm:~/dj$ gdc
> >> -fplugin=/opt/gdc-dragonegg/lib64/dragonegg.so vmacro.d
> >> cc1d: /home/jaten/pkg/dragonegg28/dragonegg-2.8/llvm-types.cpp:2066:
> >> const llvm::Type* TypeConverter::ConvertRECORD(tree_node*): Assertion
> >> `\ 0 && "Unable to decode struct fields."' failed.
> >
> > Out of curiousity, what does the struct look like?
> Hmm... I'm not sure on that one. Since I don't have any D structs in my
> v2.d code (below), the struct must be either one of the structs in
> std.stdio, or an implicitly created one. Either way, it's not the only
> issue, as the smallest program still yield a compiler crash.  It's the
> packed record that is having issues--I'll attach the section of the llvm-
> types.cpp code where the assert is firing.

First and last work here (then again, I'm prodding with a distribution-patched
copy of dragonegg here). Second segfaults, but looks to be a problem with the
plugin, rather than anything gdc could do.

Anyway, enough distraction for the time being. =)