On Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:21:15 +0100, Christian Kamm wrote: > The first version of LDC (http://www.dsource.org/projects/ldc), the LLVM > based compiler for version one of the D programming language has been > released for x86-32 Linux. Get it here: > http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9.tbz2 > > We had already announced this release during the Tango conference in > September (we hope the video of our presentation will be out soon), but > - as was to be expected - it took a bit longer than planned. > > LDC ships with a precompiled Tango rev 4237 and passes all except two of > Tango's unittests (io.digest.Md2 and text.locale.Posix fail). DStress > results also look favorable. The chances are good that your code will > work with it too! > > There are several known issues, the most severe being: > * LDC does not compile DWT successfully for unknown reasons * an LLVM > 2.4 bug sometimes leads to linker errors when unreachable code is > optimized away > * LDC doesn’t fully follow the D calling convention (but it's close!) * > we inherit every DMD-frontend related bug in the D bug tracker * … > there are more in our tracker > > If you encounter a bug, please check our bug tracker and create a new > ticket if the issue isn’t listed yet. Maybe you are feeling adventurous > and want to try fixing it yourself; in that case take a look at our > getting started guide. > > LDC could support other platforms. Furthest along so far are > * x86-64 Linux: needs people to start fixing smaller bugs, exception > bug > (LLVM issue) > * x86-32 Mac: small runtime issues, needs tests * x86-32 Windows: > exceptions not supported (LLVM issue) > > but support for these platforms won’t improve on its own! Several > friendly people have offered their help - we need more of those! > > For those with big CTFE memory needs, we have an experimental version of > LDC available > http://www.incasoftware.de/~kamm/ldc/ldc-0.9-gc.tbz2 which has the > compile-time garbage collector enabled. In the future, we're going to > experiment with a forward reference hack, but right now it still > introduces too many regressions. > > Feedback and questions are appreciated and should go to the mailing > list: [email protected]. Alternatively, we're often seen in #ldc > on FreeNode. > > Tomas Lindquist Olsen, Christian Kamm
Great work! A big leap for the D community!
