Feq questions about the D language

[Don Clugston]

On 12/03/12 01:20, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/11/2012 2:57 PM, Caligo wrote:
>> And just for the record, there are software projects that are millions
>> of lines of code in C/C++ and have ZERO workarounds. Also, I have
>> never encountered a bug in GCC when programming in C++, even when
>> trying out the latest C++11.
>
> GCC itself is fairly bug free,

I had used g++ for a grand total of three hours before I found a 
wrong-code regression -- the absolute worst category of bug. I've never 
found a DMD bug which was significantly worse than that one.

GCC is much more mature than the DMD front-end, of course, but I don't 
think it's any more bug-free than the DMD back-end.

but then again I don't push it that hard.
> The runtime library, more specifically the math functions, are
> erratically buggy. (This is why Phobos has its own implementations of
> those functions, rather than simply forwarding to gcc's library
> versions.) The ld linker on OSX is pretty awful, as in costing me much
> time in devising workarounds.