Updated LDC snap package with improved Ubuntu 14.04 support

[Joseph Rushton Wakeling via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Sunday, 19 February 2017 at 16:18:48 UTC, visitor wrote:
> Works for me on ubuntu 16.04 (llvm-3.8), Thanks :-)
> Not heavily tested, just to let you know for some feedback on 
> your work, again Thanks

Great to know that it works for you, thanks for trying it out :-)

Note the snap package doesn't use the distro-packaged LLVM; it's 
based on a fresh build of LLVM 3.9.1.  You can verify this by 
using

     which ldc2      # just to verify you are using the snap 
packaged version
     ldc2 --version  # should tell you all about the LDC, LLVM and 
D frontend versions

The latter should read:

   LDC - the LLVM D compiler (1.1.0):
     based on DMD v2.071.2 and LLVM 3.9.1
     built with LDC - the LLVM D compiler (0.17.3)

Out of curiosity, have you tried using the link-time optimization 
feature?  (-flto=full)