Switch ignores case (?)

[Antonio Corbi via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 22:13:38 UTC, ketmar wrote:
> On Wednesday, 23 November 2016 at 22:00:58 UTC, Steven 
> Schveighoffer wrote:
>> I can't see why you need to deal with the glue layer at all -- 
>> just tell the glue layer that it's a list of strings and not 
>> dstrings ;)
>
> 'cause that is how s2ir.d is done in dmd. ;-) it actually sorts 
> *objects*, and objects knows how to order 'emselves. at this 
> stage it is not trivial to treat objects as byte arrays (easy, 
> but not a one-liner).
>
> sure, other compilers may do that differently, and it doesn't 
> really matter how exactly the code for switch is generated 
> until it works correctly. ;-)

Could it be possible to ping M. Nowak to include the fix for this 
bug (due to its importance) in the final 2.072.1 release?

Antonio