[dmd-internals] dmd commit, revision 657

[Walter Bright]

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There's no doubt there are not nearly enough tests written in advance.

One thing that would help enormously is compiling dmd on linux with 
gcov, running the test suite, and then look at the results to see what 
parts of dmd were never executed. Those parts (obviously) need test cases.