DMD 1.032 and 2.016 releases

Don nospam at nospam.com.au
Wed Jul 9 05:05:34 PDT 2008


Don wrote:
> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>
>>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>>> Mostly bug fixing.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>>>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.032.zip
>>> Again a stable release that breaks Tango :
>>>
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2207
> 
> The probably related bug #2208 also breaks Tango.
> 
>>>
>>> It would be nice if the release process could stop this from happening.
>>>
> Yup. But I would have caught these before release if I hadn't had an 
> email problem.
> 
>>
>> There is another one triggered by the Tango unittests:
>>
>> tango/core/Variant.d(361): Error: functions cannot return static array
>> char[3u]
>>
>> I'm not able to minimize it out of the box though. Maybe this is a 
>> result of
>> the compiler becoming stricter, but it is any case a breaking change.
> 
> Not necessarily. It might have uncovered a pre-existing bug. (Any 
> accepts-invalid bug is very likely to break broken code).
> 
> 
Bug 870 is not completely fixed. It still gives missing line numbers.


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