Request for testers: GDC-5.1 Release Candidate branched

[Brian via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 12:04:19 UTC, Stefan Frijters wrote:
> On Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 07:13:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> GCC-5.1 has hit RC, and so it's all rush again to get bug 
>> fixes in
>> quick before the window closes.
>>
>> Packages are up on Debian: 
>> https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gdc-5
>>
>> Latest changes however are on github:
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-5
>>
>> Updates/Fixes from gdc-4.9 include:
>> - Front-end updated from 2.065.0 to 2.066.1
>> - Added "goto" support for GDC Extended Inline Assembler
>> - Added -fbounds-check=safe compiler option
>> - Added Runtime support for EMUTLS targets
>> - Added new gcc.attributes "section", "weak" and "alias"
>> - Partially fixed thunk support for externally referenced 
>> methods
>> (only variadic methods now don't work)
>> - Improved Closure/Frame chaining, all tests now passing in 
>> the testsuite[1]
>> - Improved NRVO support to take advantage of Return Slot 
>> Optimisation
>> (RSO), all tests now passing in the testsuite[2]
>>
>> Last feature I am working on getting in is runtime exception 
>> chaining
>> support.  If anyone has any grand ideas, they'd be more than 
>> welcome.
>>
>> [1]: 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/commit/84e77850a4e9184526d9b571fb8bdfda4dc103a1#diff-cbd05be6883e1f976bc2eee00b1e6bcaL2442
>> [2]: 
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/commit/b9bbf568c20d806bc8570c8cefe41bf57c729bb1#diff-2a4fd18a3f136c982c89e12064e0b6baL551
>>
>>
>> Regards
>> Iain.
>
> I don't have too much to report (which is a good thing in this 
> case): I did a fresh install from source, following [1], and I 
> didn't encounter any problems. I was already compiling my code 
> with an earlier GDC version that used the 2.066.1 front-end 
> (which is required for my code) because it gives me a 2.5x 
> speed increase for my code execution (in my Linux VM at least), 
> so I love the new release already :-D
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan
>
> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Installation/Generic

thank you for work, i like it :)
but, this version support android?