LDC 0.16.0 beta1

(Changes from 0.16.0-alpha4 release are marked with (new) and gone.)

Big news:

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.067.1.
• LLVM 3.6.x is now supported. (#821, #855)
• LLVM 3.7.x is now supported.
• Coverage Analysis à la DMD added. Implemented by Johan Engelen! (#878)
• std.net.curl now loads libcurl at runtime if/when it is actually used. This is the same fix present in post-2.068 DMD, and avoids linking issues.
• LDC now only links to the (slow) -debuglib libraries if the new -link-debuglib flag is given. (#1108) (new)

Platform support:

• Win64 runtime now supports VS2015.
• Varargs fix & ABI refactoring. (#768) Thanks to kinke for the great work!
• Provide version ARM_SoftFP when float-abi=softfp. (#857)
• clang is the default compiler on FreeBSD 10 and is used as default linker driver on this platform. (#1117) (new)

Bug fixes:

• Switching fiber stacks in finally block causes EH internal error. (#1114) (new)
• 0.16.0-alpha4: Infinite recursion inside initializer. (#1101) (new)
• [0.16.0 alpha4] missing upstream patch(es?) for 2.067.1. (#1099) (new)
• LLVM 3.7: double-free issue bugging Phobos on Linux x64. (#1033) (new)
• OS X 32-bit codegen: impossible to call an Obj-C method which return a NSPoint without crash. (#1028) (new)
• Make GCC intrinsics usable with @nogc and const *. (#1090) Thanks to Marco Leise for providing the patch!
• Treat atomic instructions as intrinsics. (#1089)
• ldc2 does not respect -of on Windows. (#1084)
• LLVM IR output: Do not repeat type in comments, print alloca sizes. (#1080)
• Calling members of large (>64 kiB) classes through interface reference fails. (#1065)
• Since 0.16.0, can't build any project with DUB whenever it has a dependency. (#1061)
• Interface dispatch is crashing. (#1058)
• merge-2.067: finally block executed twice. (#1054)
• Instruction does not dominate all uses. (#1042)
• Segfault while compiling hibernated. (#1024)
• 2.067 branch: Enormous compile time increase after dtor rework. (#1010)
• Do not emit bounds checking branches that are known to be taken (#1008)
• D variadic codegen bad for x86 32-bit and LLVM 3.6 (#1000)
• Building with -O2 -g leads to ICEs/crashes (inliner produces invalid debug info) (#998)
• Assigning struct initializer can create huge temoraries on stack. (#991)
• Segfault in cast_.d line 59 or 71 when casting class with struct containing union. (#989)
• MSVC build, lots and lots of warnings. (#988)
• ICE with std.datetime.benchmark (#982)
• Now the right C++ mangler is used when targetting MSVC.
• Duplicate symbol when using -lib (works with dmd). (#978)
• Failed assertion because of codegening a destructor call on an unavailable var. (#953)
• Vector ops optimization: inline vector ops with -O2 (#938)
• Crash: "Error: size of type is not known". (#893)
• msgpack-d 0.9.3 unittesting fails. (#841)
• repeatable crash with vague error message. (#837)
• ARM float-abi=soft. (Phobos only - see #829)
• Wrong handling of -m32/-m64. (#824)
• [DUB][scid] test crashes. (#823)
• Can't link dub with i686 LDC 0.15.1. (#813)
• Segfault when casting a class with a 0 length array. (#812)
• Compiler silently dies while codegening. (#809)
• Vararg functions does not compile on x86_64. (#702)
• Make the x86_64 System V ABI code use Type::toArgTypes. (#288)
• ABI transformations are never applied for variadic arguments. (#172)
• stack trace missing on assert failure. (#115, fixed only on OS X, see #863)
• core.stdc.stdarg doesn't work on 64 bits. (#73)

Building LDC:

• CMake fails after git gc. (#874)
• Fix cmake bug when ldc is a submodule. (#860)
• druntime fails compilation with MinGW-x64. (#847)
• Now uses "REGEX REPLACE" for MSVC static libraries option.

Internals:

• The Travis-CI builds now use the docker environment.
• AppVeyor is used to check the Win64 build. Snapshots can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kinke/ldc.
• Coverage Analysis for the LDC source code is now available at https://coveralls.io/r/ldc-developers/ldc. (#903, #380). Thanks a lot to Dmitri Makarov for implementing this!
• The CPP mangler calls now fatal() instead of assert(0) in many places. (#927, #928, #929)
• Updated to Doxygen v1.8.9.1 and changed path 'dmd' to 'dmd2'. (#846)
• Modernize bash completion setup. (#840)
• Updates to Travis-CI: gcc 4.9 and LLVM 3.7 are added. (#838)
• ldc2: valgrind: invalid read of size 4. (#825)

Known issues:

• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.
• atomicLoad(), atomicStore() et al. with 128bit data requires an alignment of 16 bytes on x86-64. Add align(16) if you encounter a segfault. If you are using vibe.d then you need to use version ~master because of this.
• Phobos does not compile on MinGW platform.

Downloads

LDC 0.16.0 alpha4

(Changes from 0.16.0-alpha3 release are marked with (new) and gone.)

Big news:

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.067.1.
• LLVM 3.6.x is now supported. (#821, #855)
• LLVM 3.7.x is now supported.
• Coverage Analysis à la DMD added. Implemented by Johan Engelen! (#878)
• std.net.curl now loads libcurl at runtime if/when it is actually used. This is the same fix present in post-2.068 DMD, and avoids linking issues.

Platform support:

• Win64 runtime now supports VS2015.
• Varargs fix & ABI refactoring. (#768) Thanks to kinke for the great work!
• Provide version ARM_SoftFP when float-abi=softfp. (#857)

Bug fixes:

• Make GCC intrinsics usable with @nogc and const *. (#1090) (new) Thanks to Marco Leise for providing the patch!
• Treat atomic instructions as intrinsics. (#1089) (new)
• ldc2 does not respect -of on Windows. (#1084) (new)
• LLVM IR output: Do not repeat type in comments, print alloca sizes. (#1080) (new)
• Calling members of large (>64 kiB) classes through interface reference fails. (#1065) (new)
• Since 0.16.0, can't build any project with DUB whenever it has a dependency. (#1061)
• Interface dispatch is crashing. (#1058)
• merge-2.067: finally block executed twice. (#1054)
• Instruction does not dominate all uses. (#1042)
• Segfault while compiling hibernated. (#1024)
• 2.067 branch: Enormous compile time increase after dtor rework. (#1010)
• Do not emit bounds checking branches that are known to be taken (#1008)
• D variadic codegen bad for x86 32-bit and LLVM 3.6 (#1000)
• Building with -O2 -g leads to ICEs/crashes (inliner produces invalid debug info) (#998)
• Assigning struct initializer can create huge temoraries on stack. (#991)
• Segfault in cast_.d line 59 or 71 when casting class with struct containing union. (#989)
• MSVC build, lots and lots of warnings. (#988) (new)
• ICE with std.datetime.benchmark (#982)
• Now the right C++ mangler is used when targetting MSVC.
• Duplicate symbol when using -lib (works with dmd). (#978)
• Failed assertion because of codegening a destructor call on an unavailable var. (#953)
• Vector ops optimization: inline vector ops with -O2 (#938)
• Crash: "Error: size of type is not known". (#893)
• msgpack-d 0.9.3 unittesting fails. (#841)
• repeatable crash with vague error message. (#837)
• ARM float-abi=soft. (Phobos only - see #829)
• Wrong handling of -m32/-m64. (#824)
• [DUB][scid] test crashes. (#823)
• Can't link dub with i686 LDC 0.15.1. (#813)
• Segfault when casting a class with a 0 length array. (#812)
• Compiler silently dies while codegening. (#809)
• Vararg functions does not compile on x86_64. (#702)
• Make the x86_64 System V ABI code use Type::toArgTypes. (#288)
• ABI transformations are never applied for variadic arguments. (#172)
• stack trace missing on assert failure. (#115, fixed only on OS X, see #863)
• core.stdc.stdarg doesn't work on 64 bits. (#73)

Building LDC:

• CMake fails after git gc. (#874)
• Fix cmake bug when ldc is a submodule. (#860)
• druntime fails compilation with MinGW-x64. (#847)
• Now uses "REGEX REPLACE" for MSVC static libaries option.

Internals:

• The Travis-CI builds now use the docker environment.
• AppVeyor is used to check the Win64 build. Snapshots can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kinke/ldc.
• Coverage Analysis for the LDC source code is now available at https://coveralls.io/r/ldc-developers/ldc. (#903, #380). Thanks a lot to Dmitri Makarov for implementing this!
• The CPP mangler calls now fatal() instead of assert(0) in many places. (#927, #928, #929)
• Updated to Doxygen v1.8.9.1 and changed path 'dmd' to 'dmd2'. (#846)
• Modernize bash completion setup. (#840)
• Updates to Travis-CI: gcc 4.9 and LLVM 3.7 are added. (#838)
• ldc2: valgrind: invalid read of size 4. (#825)

Known issues:

• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.
• atomicLoad(), atomicStore() et al. with 128bit data requires an alignment of 16 bytes on x86-64. Add align(16) if you encounter a segfault. If you are using vibe.d then you need to use version ~master because of this.
• Phobos does not compile on MinGW platform.

Downloads

LDC Windows master

This release has been superseded by the more generic CI release.

LDC 0.16.0 alpha3

(Changes from 0.16.0-alpha2 release are marked with (new) and gone.)

Big news:

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.067.1.
• LLVM 3.6.x is now supported. (#821, #855)
• LLVM 3.7.x is now supported.
• Coverage Analysis à la DMD added. Implemented by Johan Engelen! (#878)
• std.net.curl now loads libcurl at runtime if/when it is actually used. This is the same fix present in post-2.068 DMD, and avoids linking issues.

Platform support:

• Win64 runtime now supports VS2015.
• Varargs fix & ABI refactoring. (#768) Thanks to kinke for the great work!
• Provide version ARM_SoftFP when float-abi=softfp. (#857)

Bug fixes:

• Since 0.16.0, can't build any project with DUB whenever it has a dependency. (#1061) (new)
• Interface dispatch is crashing. (#1058) (new)
• merge-2.067: finally block executed twice. (#1054) (new)
• Instruction does not dominate all uses. (#1042) (new)
• Segfault while compiling hibernated. (#1024) (new)
• 2.067 branch: Enormous compile time increase after dtor rework. (#1010) (new)
• Do not emit bounds checking branches that are known to be taken (#1008)
• D variadic codegen bad for x86 32-bit and LLVM 3.6 (#1000)
• Building with -O2 -g leads to ICEs/crashes (inliner produces invalid debug info) (#998)
• Assigning struct initializer can create huge temoraries on stack. (#991)
• Segfault in cast_.d line 59 or 71 when casting class with struct containing union. (#989)
• MSVC build, lots and lots of warnings. (#988) (new, partial solved)
• ICE with std.datetime.benchmark (#982)
• Now the right C++ mangler is used when targetting MSVC.
• Duplicate symbol when using -lib (works with dmd). (#978)
• Failed assertion because of codegening a destructor call on an unavailable var. (#953)
• Vector ops optimization: inline vector ops with -O2 (#938)
• Crash: "Error: size of type is not known". (#893)
• msgpack-d 0.9.3 unittesting fails. (#841)
• repeatable crash with vague error message. (#837)
• ARM float-abi=soft. (Phobos only - see #829)
• Wrong handling of -m32/-m64. (#824)
• [DUB][scid] test crashes. (#823)
• Can't link dub with i686 LDC 0.15.1. (#813)
• Segfault when casting a class with a 0 length array. (#812)
• Compiler silently dies while codegening. (#809)
• Vararg functions does not compile on x86_64. (#702)
• Make the x86_64 System V ABI code use Type::toArgTypes. (#288)
• ABI transformations are never applied for variadic arguments. (#172)
• stack trace missing on assert failure. (#115, fixed only on OS X, see #863)
• core.stdc.stdarg doesn't work on 64 bits. (#73)

Building LDC:

• CMake fails after git gc. (#874)
• Fix cmake bug when ldc is a submodule. (#860)
• druntime fails compilation with MinGW-x64. (#847)
• Now uses "REGEX REPLACE" for MSVC static libaries option.

Internals:

• The Travis-CI builds now use the docker environment.
• AppVeyor is used to check the Win64 build. Snapshots can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kinke/ldc.
• Coverage Analysis for the LDC source code is now available at https://coveralls.io/r/ldc-developers/ldc. (#903, #380). Thanks a lot to Dmitri Makarov for implementing this!
• The CPP mangler calls now fatal() instead of assert(0) in many places. (#927, #928, #929)
• Updated to Doxygen v1.8.9.1 and changed path 'dmd' to 'dmd2'. (#846)
• Modernize bash completion setup. (#840)
• Updates to Travis-CI: gcc 4.9 and LLVM 3.7 are added. (#838)
• ldc2: valgrind: invalid read of size 4. (#825)

Known issues:

• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.
• atomicLoad(), atomicStore() et al. with 128bit data requires an alignment of 16 bytes on x86-64. Add align(16) if you encounter a segfault. If you are using vibe.d then you need to use version ~master because of this.
• Phobos does not compile on MinGW platform.

Downloads

LDC 0.16.0 alpha 2

(Changes from 0.15.2-beta-2 release are marked with (new) and gone.)

Big news:

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.067.1. (new)
• LLVM 3.6.x is now supported. (#821, #855)
• LLVM 3.7.x is now supported. (new)
• Coverage Analysis à la DMD added. Implemented by Johan Engelen! (#878)
• LDC now links in libcurl by default. This avoids linking issues (e.g. #683). You can explicitly set -defaultlib/-debuglib or edit ldc2.conf if you do not want to link to libcurl.

Platform support:

• Win64 runtime now supports VS2015. (new)
• Varargs fix & ABI refactoring. (#768) Thanks to kinke for the great work!
• Provide version ARM_SoftFP when float-abi=softfp. (#857)

Bug fixes:

• Do not emit bounds checking branches that are known to be taken (#1008) (new)
• D variadic codegen bad for x86 32-bit and LLVM 3.6 (#1000) (new)
• Building with -O2 -g leads to ICEs/crashes (inliner produces invalid debug info) (#998) (new)
• Assigning struct initializer can create huge temoraries on stack. (#991) (new)
• Segfault in cast_.d line 59 or 71 when casting class with struct containing union. (#989) (new)
• ICE with std.datetime.benchmark (#982) (new)
• Now the right C++ mangler is used when targetting MSVC.
• Duplicate symbol when using -lib (works with dmd). (#978)
• Failed assertion because of codegening a destructor call on an unavailable var. (#953)
• Vector ops optimization: inline vector ops with -O2 (#938)
• Crash: "Error: size of type is not known". (#893)
• msgpack-d 0.9.3 unittesting fails. (#841)
• repeatable crash with vague error message. (#837)
• ARM float-abi=soft. (Phobos only - see #829)
• Wrong handling of -m32/-m64. (#824)
• [DUB][scid] test crashes. (#823)
• Can't link dub with i686 LDC 0.15.1. (#813)
• Segfault when casting a class with a 0 length array. (#812)
• Compiler silently dies while codegening. (#809)
• Vararg functions does not compile on x86_64. (#702)
• Make the x86_64 System V ABI code use Type::toArgTypes. (#288)
• ABI transformations are never applied for variadic arguments. (#172)
• stack trace missing on assert failure. (#115, fixed only on OS X, see #863)
• core.stdc.stdarg doesn't work on 64 bits. (#73)

Building LDC:

• CMake fails after git gc. (#874)
• Fix cmake bug when ldc is a submodule. (#860)
• druntime fails compilation with MinGW-x64. (#847)
• Now uses "REGEX REPLACE" for MSVC static libaries option. (new)

Internals:

• The Travis-CI builds now use the docker environment. (new)
• AppVeyor is used to check the Win64 build. Snapshots can be downloaded from https://ci.appveyor.com/project/kinke/ldc. (new)
• Coverage Analysis for the LDC source code is now available at https://coveralls.io/r/ldc-developers/ldc. (#903, #380). Thanks a lot to Dmitri Makarov for implementing this!
• The CPP mangler calls now fatal() instead of assert(0) in many places. (#927, #928, #929)
• Updated to Doxygen v1.8.9.1 and changed path 'dmd' to 'dmd2'. (#846)
• Modernize bash completion setup. (#840)
• Updates to Travis-CI: gcc 4.9 and LLVM 3.7 are added. (#838)
• ldc2: valgrind: invalid read of size 4. (#825)

Known issues:

• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.

Downloads

LDC 0.15.2 beta2

(Changes from beta-1 release are marked with (new) and gone.)

Big news:

• LLVM 3.6.x is now supported. (#821, #855) (new)
• Coverage Analysis à la DMD added. Implemented by Johan Engelen! (#878) (new)
• LDC now links in libcurl by default. This avoids linking issues (e.g. #683). You can explicitly set -defaultlib/-debuglib or edit ldc2.conf if you do not want to link to libcurl. (new)

Platform support:

• Varargs fix & ABI refactoring. (#768) Thanks to kinke for the great work!
• Provide version ARM_SoftFP when float-abi=softfp. (#857)

Bug fixes:

• Now the right C++ mangler is used when targetting MSVC. (new)
• Duplicate symbol when using -lib (works with dmd). (#978) (new)
• Failed assertion because of codegening a destructor call on an unavailable var. (#953) (new)
• Vector ops optimization: inline vector ops with -O2 (#938) (new)
• Crash: "Error: size of type is not known". (#893) (new)
• msgpack-d 0.9.3 unittesting fails. (#841)
• repeatable crash with vague error message. (#837)
• ARM float-abi=soft. (Phobos only - see #829)
• Wrong handling of -m32/-m64. (#824)
• [DUB][scid] test crashes. (#823)
• Can't link dub with i686 LDC 0.15.1. (#813)
• Segfault when casting a class with a 0 length array. (#812)
• Compiler silently dies while codegening. (#809)
• Vararg functions does not compile on x86_64. (#702)
• Make the x86_64 System V ABI code use Type::toArgTypes. (#288)
• ABI transformations are never applied for variadic arguments. (#172)
• stack trace missing on assert failure. (#115, fixed only on OS X, see #863)
• core.stdc.stdarg doesn't work on 64 bits. (#73)

Building LDC:

• CMake fails after git gc. (#874) (new)
• Fix cmake bug when ldc is a submodule. (#860)
• druntime fails compilation with MinGW-x64. (#847)
• LDC builds with current LLVM trunk 3.7, too.

Internals:

• Coverage Analysis for the LDC source code is now available at https://coveralls.io/r/ldc-developers/ldc. (#903, #380). Thanks a lot to Dmitri Makarov for implementing this! (new)
• The CPP mangler calls now fatal() instead of assert(0) in many places. (#927, #928, #929) (new)
• Updated to Doxygen v1.8.9.1 and changed path 'dmd' to 'dmd2'. (#846)
• Modernize bash completion setup. (#840)
• Updates to Travis-CI: gcc 4.9 and LLVM 3.7 are added. (#838)
• ldc2: valgrind: invalid read of size 4. (#825)

Known issues:

• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.

Downloads

LDC 0.15.2 beta1

Big news:

• Now LLVM 3.6.0 is officially supported!

Platform support:

• Varargs fix & ABI refactoring. (#768) Thanks to kinke for the great work!
• Provide version ARM_SoftFP when float-abi=softfp. (#857)

Bug fixes:

• msgpack-d 0.9.3 unittesting fails. (#841)
• repeatable crash with vague error message. (#837)
• ARM float-abi=soft. (Phobos only - see #829)
• Wrong handling of -m32/-m64. (#824)
• [DUB][scid] test crashes. (#823)
• Can't link dub with i686 LDC 0.15.1. (#813)
• Segfault when casting a class with a 0 length array. (#812)
• Compiler silently dies while codegening. (#809)
• Vararg functions does not compile on x86_64. (#702)
• Make the x86_64 System V ABI code use Type::toArgTypes. (#288)
• ABI transformations are never applied for variadic arguments. (#172)
• stack trace missing on assert failure. (#115, fixed only on OS X, see #863)
• core.stdc.stdarg doesn't work on 64 bits. (#73)

Building LDC:

• Fix cmake bug when ldc is a submodule. (#860)
• druntime fails compilation with MinGW-x64. (#847)

Internals:

• Updated to Doxygen v1.8.9.1 and changed path 'dmd' to 'dmd2'. (#846)
• Modernize bash completion setup. (#840)
• Updates to Travis-CI: gcc 4.9 and LLVM 3.7 are added. (#838)
• ldc2: valgrind: invalid read of size 4. (#825)

Known issues:

• LDC emits too much code. This leads to spurious failures in the std.stdiobase unit test. Workaround is adding -lcurl to the commandline. (This seems to be related to #662.)
• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.

Downloads

LDC 0.15.1

(Changes from beta-1 release are marked with (new) and gone. 0.15.0 was not released due to a bug.)

Big news:

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.066.1.
• Now LLVM 3.5.0 is officially supported!
• More LLVM intrinsics are now builtins (usable with CTFE): llvm.sin, llvm.cos, llvm.sqrt, llvm.fabs, llvm.floor, llvm.ceil, llvm.round, llvm.trunc, llvm.minnum and llvm.maxnum.
• LDC now builds vibe.d.

Platform support:

• Better (but not perfect) support for exceptions on ARM. (#489)
• Better support for Win64 with MS C Runtime (requires LLVM 3.6!).
• Support for x87 80bit reals on Win64 with MS C Runtime has been dropped.
• Support for doubledouble on PPC32/64 has been dropped.
• Support for Linux/PPC64 Little Endian has been added. (Some unit tests are still failing, but major components including garbage collector work.)
• The internal assembler is now used on MinGW with LLVM 3.5 instead of GNU as.
• Support for Solaris/x86 has been added. (new)

Bug fixes:

• LDC 0.15.0 beta1 mingw x86 build calls DMD's (or whomever's) lib.exe incorrectly on windows. (#805 ) (new)
• Precompiled binary not working on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. (Part of #804) (new)
• Struct dtor called twice under some circumstances. (#795) (new)
• Crash on empty expression after asm statement. (#791) (new)
• The modules from core.internal.* are now compiled into libdruntime. (Reported in newsgroup.)
• Compile-time array literal repeatedly allocated at run-time despite not being used. (#762)
• ldmd2 now supports -boundscheck=. (Reported in newsgroup.)
• Fix Win64 ABI wrt. passing structs > 64 bit. (#756)
• ICE with minimal D runtime and basic extern(C) int main() function. (#689)
• CMake build failed with non-empty lib suffix. (#712)
• Cannot build GtkD using ldc2. (#703)
• Builtins llvm.ctpop and llvm.bswap now work as expected.
• Win64 MSVC improvements. (#727, #728)
• Wrong alignment for struct fields on x86_64/amd64 (#726)
• 2 nested context problems were fixed. (#696, #739)
• Building LuaD fails on Windows. (#642)
• Use returned attribute for struct constructors. (#637)
• Using nested structs with AAs can trigger an erroneous "cannot create associative array" error in some very specific circumstances (#407).
• LDC crashes if imported module contains error. (#541)
• Compiler Segfault: Running pass 'X86 AT&T-Style Assembly Printer' on function "...". (#546)
• LDC not functional with newer mingw-w64 releases. (#534)
• Linker error when using curl. (#501)
• Exception chaining not implemented on Win64. (#463)
• isFile() called with a nonexistant path crashes on Win64. (#460)
• std.stdio File I/O is not fully complete. (#459)
• MSVC linking issue with std.zlib. (#306)
• Win64 Exception Handling. (#166)

Building LDC:

• The CMake files work with LLVM 3.6. LDC can be compiled with LLVM master.
• Removed compiler switch -Wno-pendantic if an older gcc is used.

Internals:

• Fixed missing call to va_end. (#695)

Known issues:

• LDC emits too much code. This leads to spurious failures in the std.stdiobase unit test. Workaround is adding -lcurl to the commandline. (This seems to be related to #662.)
• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.

Downloads

LDC 0.15.0 beta 1

(Changes from alpha-1 release are marked with (new) and gone.)

Big news:

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.066.1. (new)
• Now LLVM 3.5.0 is officially supported!
• More LLVM intrinsics are now builtins (usable with CTFE): llvm.sin, llvm.cos, llvm.sqrt, llvm.fabs, llvm.floor, llvm.ceil, llvm.round, llvm.trunc, llvm.minnum and llvm.maxnum. (new)
• LDC now builds vibe.d.

Platform support:

• Better (but not perfect) support for exceptions on ARM. (#489) (new)
• Better support for Win64 with MS C Runtime (requires LLVM 3.6!).
• Support for x87 80bit reals on Win64 with MS C Runtime has been dropped.
• Support for doubledouble on PPC32/64 has been dropped.
• Support for Linux/PPC64 Little Endian has been added. (Some unit tests are still failing, but major components including garbage collector work.)
• The internal assembler is now used on MinGW with LLVM 3.5 instead of GNU as.

Bug fixes:

• The modules from core.internal.* are now compiled into libdruntime. (Reported in newsgroup.) (new)
• Compile-time array literal repeatedly allocated at run-time despite not being used. (#762) (new)
• ldmd2 now supports -boundscheck=. (Reported in newsgroup.) (new)
• Fix Win64 ABI wrt. passing structs > 64 bit. (#756)
• ICE with minimal D runtime and basic extern(C) int main() function. (#689)
• CMake build failed with non-empty lib suffix. (#712)
• Cannot build GtkD using ldc2. (#703)
• Builtins llvm.ctpop and llvm.bswap now work as expected.
• Win64 MSVC improvements. (#727, #728)
• Wrong alignment for struct fields on x86_64/amd64 (#726)
• 2 nested context problems were fixed. (#696, #739)
• Building LuaD fails on Windows. (#642)
• Use returned attribute for struct constructors. (#637) (new)
• Using nested structs with AAs can trigger an erroneous "cannot create associative array" error in some very specific circumstances (#407).
• LDC crashes if imported module contains error. (#541)
• Compiler Segfault: Running pass 'X86 AT&T-Style Assembly Printer' on function "...". (#546)
• LDC not functional with newer mingw-w64 releases. (#534) (new)
• Linker error when using curl. (#501) (new)
• Exception chaining not implemented on Win64. (#463)
• isFile() called with a nonexistant path crashes on Win64. (#460)
• std.stdio File I/O is not fully complete. (#459)
• MSVC linking issue with std.zlib. (#306)
• Win64 Exception Handling. (#166)

Building LDC:

• The CMake files work with LLVM 3.6. LDC can be compiled with LLVM master.
• Removed compiler switch -Wno-pendantic if an older gcc is used.

Internals:

• Fixed missing call to va_end. (#695)

Known issues:

• LDC emits too much code. This leads to spurious failures in the std.stdiobase unit test. Workaround is adding -lcurl to the commandline. (This seems to be related to #662.)
• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc. (new)
• Garbage collection does not work on Linux/PPC64 and other big-endian systems.

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LDC 0.15.0 alpha1

Big news:

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.066.1-rc2.
• Now LLVM 3.5.0 is officially supported!
• More LLVM intrinsics are now builtins (usable with CTFE): llvm.sin, llvm.cos, llvm.sqrt and llvm.fabs.
• LDC now builds vibe.d.

Platform support:

• Better support for Win64 with MS C Runtime (requires LLVM 3.6!).
• Support for x87 80bit reals on Win64 with MS C Runtime has been dropped.
• Support for doubledouble on PPC32/64 has been dropped.
• Support for Linux/PPC64 Little Endian has been added. (Please note that there are still failing unit tests.)
• The internal assembler is now used on MinGW with LLVM 3.5 instead of GNU as.

Bug fixes:

• Fix Win64 ABI wrt. passing structs > 64 bit. (#756)
• ICE with minimal D runtime and basic extern(C) int main() function. (#689)
• CMake build failed with non-empty lib suffix. (#712)
• Cannot build GtkD using ldc2. (#703)
• Builtins llvm.ctpop and llvm.bswap now work as expected.
• Win64 MSVC improvements. (#727, #728)
• Wrong alignment for struct fields on x86_64/amd64 (#726)
• 2 nested context problems were fixed. (#696, #739)
• Building LuaD fails on Windows. (#642)
• Using nested structs with AAs can trigger an erroneous "cannot create associative array" error in some very specific circumstances (#407).
• LDC crashes if imported module contains error. (#541)
• Compiler Segfault: Running pass 'X86 AT&T-Style Assembly Printer' on function "...". (#546)
• Exception chaining not implemented on Win64. (#463)
• isFile() called with a nonexistant path crashes on Win64. (#460)
• std.stdio File I/O is not fully complete. (#459)
• MSVC linking issue with std.zlib. (#306)
• Win64 Exception Handling. (#166)

Building LDC:

• The CMake files work with LLVM 3.6. LDC can be compiled with LLVM master.
• Removed compiler switch -Wno-pendantic if an older gcc is used.

Internals:

• Fixed missing call to va_end. (#695)

Known issues:

• LDC emits too much code. This leads to spurious failures in the std.stdiobase unit test. Workaround is adding -lcurl to the commandline. (This seems to be related to #662.)
• Garbage collection does not work on Linux/PPC64 and other big-endian systems.

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