dmd 2.068, 2.069, 2.0xx Evil Plan going forward

Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 20 15:41:09 PDT 2015


On Monday, 20 July 2015 at 22:26:53 UTC, rsw0x wrote:
> because versions are released with GDC and LDC lagging 2-3 
> versions behind, when DMD is unusable for production quality 
> codegen.
>
> 2.068 is almost out and GDC and LDC both only support 2.066. 
> Until D decides to adopt either GDC or LDC as a real backend, 
> this will never be fixed.

Unifying the frontend will go a long way towards fixing this 
problem, and Daniel is working on that right now. He's aiming to 
make it so that the frontend is identical across all three 
compilers so that the ldc and gdc developers don't have to fork 
it like they do now.

- Jonathan M Davis


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