On Friday, 12 January 2018 at 16:13:39 UTC, Seb wrote:
Motivation
----------
1) It's required for Walter's work on using -betterC for the
backend conversion:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/6907
Not really, he just wants to dogfood betterC on the dmd backend
when it's ported to D.
2) We start to run into random failures lately, e.g.
https://github.com/braddr/d-tester/issues/63
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7569#issuecomment-356992048
Seem like issues with 32-bit OS X instead.
3) There's also WIP to move dmd-cxx to 2.076.1:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/7595
No idea when that will be ready.
So if we have to bump the minimal dmd version required to build
DMD anyways for (1), let's be clear about it and state it.
Anyone objecting?
This is going to require changes to ldc/gdc CI, as they actually
maintain and test against that last C++ version of the common D
frontend. It will also affect ports to new platforms, as it
presents another hoop to jump through.
I see little reason to jump now. If it's done, it needs to be
clearly documented.
