Recent Phobos changes

Jason House jason.james.house at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 09:13:04 PST 2009


Don Wrote:

> Jason House wrote:
> > There's been a flurry of commits lately. I noticed two strange things:
> > 1. Unlike other intrinsics, bswap was not marked nothrow (only pure). This seems odd considering what the function does.
> > 2. The math changes removed a lot of float-based prototypes when adding faster functions. That will cause difficulty for those who use floats. Ignoring speed loss for conversions, this will also require explicit casts.
> > 
> > Are these bugs, or am I missing something?
> 
> You're missing an intermediate compiler release <g>. You're seeing stuff 
> in a peculiar intermediate state. Yes, there are weird bugs.

I'm hoping that pointing out stuff when I see it is helpful because they could get missed.  I don't know of the proper way to point out things or if I should just stay silent on the sidelines...



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