Survey: Can we drop support for LLVM versions prior to 3.5?
weaselcat via digitalmars-d-ldc
digitalmars-d-ldc at puremagic.com
Sat Apr 11 18:52:41 PDT 2015
On Friday, 10 April 2015 at 05:56:36 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> Currently LDC can be compiled with LLVM 3.1-3.6 with support
> for LLVM trunk constantly added.
>
> Because the LLVM API is not stable this broad support becomes
> more and more a burden. It is also likely that this set of LLVM
> libraries will not be supported by the new Travis container
> (which I like to use because of more RAM and CPU cores).
>
> Versions 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 have serious bugs which forces us to
> disable optimizations for some tests. Especially 3.3 is
> unusable with OS X!
>
> Therefore I like to know which LLVM version do you use with LDC.
>
> If no one objects then the plan would be that the next major
> release is the last one which can be compiled with LLVM 3.1-3.4.
>
> Please give feedback!
>
> Regards,
> Kai
I use LLVM 3.6
only debian stable, slackware, freebsd, and opensuse have prior
to 3.5 in their repos AFAIK.
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