dmd codegen improvements

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 8/18/2015 2:25 PM, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> I would like to add that fixing the regression does not make it go away. Even
> though it's fixed in git, and even after the fix ships with a new DMD release,
> there is still a D version out there that has the bug, and that will never
> change until the end of time.

Not necessarily. The reason we split off a new branch of dmd with each release 
is so that we can patch it if necessary.


> Fixing regressions is not enough. We need to try harder to prevent them from
> ending up in DMD releases at all.

I agree, but stopping development isn't much of a solution.