On 19 April 2015 at 20:39, Brian via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > On Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 12:04:19 UTC, Stefan Frijters wrote: >> >> On Sunday, 19 April 2015 at 07:13:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> GCC-5.1 has hit RC, and so it's all rush again to get bug fixes in >>> quick before the window closes. >>> >>> Packages are up on Debian: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/gdc-5 >>> >>> Latest changes however are on github: >>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-5 >>> >>> Updates/Fixes from gdc-4.9 include: >>> - Front-end updated from 2.065.0 to 2.066.1 >>> - Added "goto" support for GDC Extended Inline Assembler >>> - Added -fbounds-check=safe compiler option >>> - Added Runtime support for EMUTLS targets >>> - Added new gcc.attributes "section", "weak" and "alias" >>> - Partially fixed thunk support for externally referenced methods >>> (only variadic methods now don't work) >>> - Improved Closure/Frame chaining, all tests now passing in the >>> testsuite[1] >>> - Improved NRVO support to take advantage of Return Slot Optimisation >>> (RSO), all tests now passing in the testsuite[2] >>> >>> Last feature I am working on getting in is runtime exception chaining >>> support. If anyone has any grand ideas, they'd be more than welcome. >>> >>> [1]: >>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/commit/84e77850a4e9184526d9b571fb8bdfda4dc103a1#diff-cbd05be6883e1f976bc2eee00b1e6bcaL2442 >>> [2]: >>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/commit/b9bbf568c20d806bc8570c8cefe41bf57c729bb1#diff-2a4fd18a3f136c982c89e12064e0b6baL551 >>> >>> >>> Regards >>> Iain. >> >> >> I don't have too much to report (which is a good thing in this case): I >> did a fresh install from source, following [1], and I didn't encounter any >> problems. I was already compiling my code with an earlier GDC version that >> used the 2.066.1 front-end (which is required for my code) because it gives >> me a 2.5x speed increase for my code execution (in my Linux VM at least), so >> I love the new release already :-D >> >> Cheers, >> >> Stefan >> >> [1] http://wiki.dlang.org/GDC/Installation/Generic > > > thank you for work, i like it :) > but, this version support android?
There should be no reason for compiler not to support Android, but as far as I know, D runtime support is still missing. This is in the hands of upstream library development. See: https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/1010 Regards Iain.
