D1 and Phobos Fixes

Don nospam at nospam.com
Fri May 15 04:43:02 PDT 2009


Spacen Jasset wrote:
> Walter Bright wrote:
>> Spacen Jasset wrote:
>>> This goes for the compiler too, but presumably a lot of the the code 
>>> is shared and it isn't so easy.
>>
>> Many compiler patches get posted to bugzilla. About half of them are 
>> correct, the other half aren't (often fixing the symptom rather than 
>> the cause of the problem).
>>
>> Essentially, the compiler is fairly complicated and not well 
>> commented; I want to review any changes before they're committed. 
>> Otherwise I'll lose track of how it works and how it's supposed to work.
> Yes fair enough. What about phobos? Do many patches for phobos come in?

Not many Phobos patches have been posted. Phobos is quite different to 
the compiler, several of us have write access to it. It's well worth 
submitting patches for it.



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