GCC 15.1 Released (D 2.111.0)

[WB]

On Sunday, 11 May 2025 at 22:06:57 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Thursday, 8 May 2025 at 17:34:06 UTC, WB wrote:
>>> 
>>> Support for the D programming language has been updated to 
>>> version 2.111.0 of the language and run-time library. Full 
>>> changelog for this release and previous releases can be found 
>>> on the dlang.org website.
>>
>>
>> I think the D section in GCC changes always lacks details.
>> I think it is not enough to just reference to D changes on 
>> some other website.
>>
>> Most people do not even know D is in GCC, or by short section 
>> in GCC changes
>> notes, they think that nothing is happening with D in GCC, or 
>> it is abandoned.
>>
>> I think it would be good to actually mention major work and 
>> changes since previous 14.x and 15.1. And if possible do so in 
>> the next versions.
>>
>> Cheers.
>
> Thanks for the suggestion. My feeling is listing all ~40 or so 
> "compiler changes" since the previous sync'd version (2.108) 
> would be a bit too much to mirror from the DMD change logs.

40 is probably not too much. But 10-15 major ones should be good 
target. So some can be skipped, or just mentioned briefly without 
going too much into details.

> I'm also aware that almost all new features are contained 
> within the DMD front-end, and the actual GDC code generator 
> side is pretty stable - ignoring the relentless renaming of 
> functions and fields in upstream DMD.  :-)
>
> What about either of the following:
> - Pick a few notable changes from each release. Probably 
> subjective.

Sounds good to me.

> - Restrict to listing changes that require some explicit 
> support from the code generator (Placement `new`) or the 
> driver/cli processing (`-fpreview=safer`)

Maybe sometimes, i.e. some new flags and preview, or changes 
breaking compatibility in source, or command line, would also be 
nice to mention.