Recent changes to GDC.

[Manu]

I had creeping problems building phobos (MinGW) last night stemming from
D_InlineAsm being removed. Didn't manage to get it working in the end, gave
up and went to bed :)


On 16 January 2012 00:34, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> I've done a recent blitz of changes through the GDC codebase, some which
> change the way code is generated in a way which affects the current ABI.
>
> * Dropped support for GCC 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4
>
> * Merged in the work Walter has done for __vector type support.  There are
> now newly available GCC builtins for vector operations via gcc.builtins
> module.
>
> * GDC's default calling convention has now been switched back to that of
> the default for the target platform. The D_InlineAsm family of version
> identifiers are now turned off by default as we no longer pretend to follow
> DMD's calling convention. For those who want to turn on
> D_InlineAsm(_X86/_x86_64) there is a -fd-inline-asm compiler switch.
>
> * GDC will emit the GNU_InlineAsm version identifier to tell user code
> that we support GNU Extended Inline Assembly.
>
> * All patches to GCC proper have now been removed, GDC can now build
> applications without relying on changes to the backend, with the exception
> of naked functions.
>
> * "naked" has now been implemented now as a function attribute of the x86
> platform.  It is applied to all naked functions, and implies noinline and
> noclone.
>
> * D version 2 is now the default compiler to build.
>
>
> I will get round to putting up a roadmap to GCC-4.8 sometime this week,
> and I invite everyone interested in making this happen to get together and
> help progress this. :)
>
>
>
> Regards
> --
> Iain Buclaw
>
> *(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
>
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