[dmd-beta] dmd 1.063 and 2.048 beta

[Don Clugston]

On 9 August 2010 13:23, Fawzi Mohamed <fawzi at gmx.ch> wrote:
>
> On 9-ago-10, at 12:37, Don Clugston wrote:
>
>> They should not be in std. Just delete them.
>>
>> On a somewhat related topic -- Andrei commented out the unit tests in
>> biguintcore and biguintx86 (search for @@ to find them) stating that
>> they fail on OSX.
>> They certainly pass on Windows, and they are unchanged since the last
>> release. Can someone with access to OSX please uncomment them, and
>> confirm that they fail? If they're failing, I think it can only mean
>> we have an OSX-specific wrong-code regression, which we need to solve.
>
> On tango, they fail on osx, since like forever, I had told you but probably
> I should have made a more formal thing about it.
> I sort of submitted a bug in http://dsource.org/projects/tango/ticket/1958

OK, sounds like the unit tests may never have passed on OSX.
BTW you can now assume that none of the Phobos devs will look at
anything related to Tango. Compiler-related bug reports need to be
added to Bugzilla.

>> And on another topic: there's a bug here which is a bit hard to believe:
>> 3461 Unittests and assert don't work at all (Mac D1 only)
>> Has anybody tested D1 on OSX??  That bug is an absolute show-stopper
>> if it's still current.
>
> unittest on mac *need* to be explicitly imported by the unittester to be
> loaded/accessible.
> I had submitted a bug about it, don't know where it went...
> Not sure if it is a bug or a feature...

Sounds like a bug, especially when it works on D2.