Moving towards D2 2.061 (and D1 1.076)
Walter Bright
newshound2 at digitalmars.com
Mon Dec 10 03:11:34 PST 2012
On 12/10/2012 12:56 AM, Denis Shelomovskij wrote:
> A long time ago I wrote one (not open source) application in D1+Tango.
> I'm still supporting it. The last D1 compiler I can use is 1.066 as then a fatal
> regression was introduced and templates became unusable because of ICE. Am I the
> only one who use templates in D1? If not, what is the purpose for all this
> needless D1 releases as compiler doesn't work for almost any project with
> templates?
What is the bugzilla issue number for that? In bugzilla, you can tag issues as
being "regressions", and I don't recall seeing one like you describe. Here is
the current list of regressions:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_severity=regression&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
> And let me beat utterly:
>
> Now imagine: a person updated a compiler and get ICE. On *huge* codebase. What
> will he do? He will use old working one. But I decided to go further, found a
> DustMite and decided to find the source of the error. Do you know that current
> D2 compiler ICE-s with compiling DustMite? Imagine, what will feel a person when
> bug finding tool ICE-s a compiler? He will probably consider "D is a peace of
> unstable shit" and go away.
>
> And he will be right as it is unforgivable for us to talk about any "stability"
> of D. "D is for crazy nerd who are ready to find, report and workaround infinite
> compiler bugs on any complicated code with templates", that's all we can tell.
>
> But I finally managed to compile DustMite without ICE, found the regression and
> reported. Still unfixed...
What is the bugzilla issue number?
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