GCC 15.1 Released (D 2.111.0)

[Iain Buclaw]

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.

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.

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