DMD 1.031 and 2.015 releases

[Don]

Frank Benoit wrote:
> Walter Bright schrieb:
>> Some new stuff to make writing templates easier.
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.031.zip
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.015.zip
> 
> What effect has -fPIC to code?
> When do i use -fPIC?
> What is a situation, where the version D_PIC is useful in the source code?

It was requested by me. When fPIC is enabled, if you are writing inline 
asm, you can't access any global values (including constants). So you 
need to do some slow, ugly workarounds. It's a big problem for SSE code 
  which doesn't have any immediate instructions. You can't even load the 
value 1 into a register!