On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 15:53:23 UTC, Joakim wrote:
On Monday, 23 April 2018 at 09:18:07 UTC, Suliman wrote:
What about Webassembly support? Latest LLVM suppport it, so
LDC should support also.
We don't support a lot of platforms that llvm supports. It will
require someone to work on the port, which hasn't happened.
I've said before that I don't think it's worth it, because the
web has been declining as a platform:
https://forum.dlang.org/post/unqvdzopebfksnxwh...@forum.dlang.org
On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 at 08:47:49 UTC, Radu wrote:
On Sunday, 22 April 2018 at 15:56:49 UTC, kinke wrote:
Hi everyone,
on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first
beta for LDC 1.9. The highlights of this version in a
nutshell:
* Based on D 2.079.1, including new `-i` switch and support
for a minimal (d)runtime.
* Support for LLVM 6, used for all prebuilt packages (except
for Win32).
* `-link-internally` able to (cross-)link Windows, Linux and
macOS binaries.
* Prebuilt Linux and macOS packages now shipping with
LTO-able druntime/Phobos.
* Improved support for MIPS targets and the uClibc runtime
library.
* Various fixes, incl. druntime/Phobos/ldc-jit .dylib issues
on macOS.
Full release log and downloads:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.9.0-beta1
Thanks to all contributors!
Looks that not all my druntime and phobos PR got in. Is this
because they were not included in 2.0.79 mainline release?
Yes, ldc releases are the same as dmd releases, with some
ldc-specific changes. We generally don't backport features from
upstream.
ATM uClibc is not usable as is, it doesn't even compile
because of various missing pieces, bummer :(
Yeah, this beta doesn't even have a MIPS backend. How much of
the testsuite do you have working on MIPS/uClibc? If you have
it pretty far along, we can probably cherry-pick what you need
and ship it with 1.9 for people to try.
I realized that those PRs are not going to get in :(.
Unfortunately it is pretty hard to contribute something that has
a big impact. It looks that I need to wait another 2 releases to
get all those changes in LDC as I might miss the 2.8.0 window for
1 PR, not counting additional patches for fixes that might come
later on...
uClibc fully passes druntime unit tests on ARM had float (armv7).
phobos test runner segfaults on std.mathspecial, commenting out
mathspecial - I get some asserts on formatting code related to
double and some math asserts on some constants. Overall looks
good and the formatting issues for double and math special
segfault are not a priority for me, yet.
on uClibc MIPS, druntime test hangs on everything after running
core.runtime test at `void* z = pureMalloc(size_t.max - 2);`,
malloc calls will fail after this (overcommit). Versioning it out
I get the druntime unittest passing with an assert on core.atomic
for double and some assert when allocating 390mb of memory in
gc.impl.conservative.gc (way to much for my board). Overall
druntime looks good. I don't have the details for phobos, but
most of it passes.
MIPS is a bit special as the vendor toolchain for my HW is pretty
old and misses some supporting libs like libbacktrace, a math
function etc.. had to stub them out. I think MIPS will require
more tinkering from people trying it out.
