[dmd-beta] Time for a new beta

[Daniel Murphy]

An error (with a line number) would be even better than an assert in
many cases, as it would at least give an indication of what need to be
changed to work around the compiler bug.

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 21:58, Don Clugston <dclugston at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 29.03.2012 22:54, Walter Bright wrote:
>>>
>>> But first we have several new regressions to deal with:
>>>
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&bug_severity=regression&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED
>
> I think we should also introduce of policy of never shipping with
> known compiler segfaults. The relevant bugs don't necessarily need to
> be fixed, just replaced
> with an assert, so it's hardly any work. There's only a couple of them
> right now.
> Likewise bug 7190 -- it's a simple infinite loop, that doesn't even
> cause a stack overflow, so DMD just hangs. It should become an assert
> failure.
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