[dmd-beta] dmd 1.067 alpha
Brad Roberts
braddr at puremagic.com
Sat Jan 15 12:12:25 PST 2011
On 1/15/2011 1:39 AM, Walter Bright wrote:
> This is the 64 bit Linux version! Hopefully, the D2 64 bit alpha isn't too far
> behind.
>
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd1beta.zip
>
> The 64 bit support is ALPHA, so expect problems! Please post bugs here, not in
> bugzilla, until we do a real release.
>
>
> Known Problems
> --------------
>
> Code gen is not tuned for 64 bits. It's inefficient, especially with floating point.
>
> C ABI for struct and complex number pass/return is not followed.
>
> Dwarf symbolic debug info is generated, but not recognized by gdb. I have no
> idea what the problem is.
>
> std.zip is not working.
>
> std.boxer is not working.
I haven't tested with d1, but I don't recall seeing any changes to the alignment
code to correct the issues that test23.d's test22 exposed. 64bit c sizes Bar22
at 8 bytes, d2 at 16.
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