Re: Illegal behaviour or GDC bug?

2016-10-13 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn 
On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 20:22:51 UTC, Peter Campbell 
wrote:
OK that's cool, I'll just avoid GDC for now. Is it generally a 
good approach to assume if something compiles in DMD then it's 
correct and just hope that GDC/LDC pick up the latest version 
at some point?


mostly yes. btw, ldc has devbuilds available from it's github 
page, those are usually on par with current dmd.


it is very sad that gdc has so little manpower, tho. Iain doing a 
great job, but...

Re: Illegal behaviour or GDC bug?

2016-10-13 Thread Peter Campbell via Digitalmars-d-learn 

On Thursday, 13 October 2016 at 20:18:31 UTC, ketmar wrote:
sadly, gdc has way older frontend version than ldc (and dmd, of 
course). gdc is like 2.067, and ldc/dmd is 2.072. that this was 
fixed in later versions, but gdc is not updated yet.


OK that's cool, I'll just avoid GDC for now. Is it generally a 
good approach to assume if something compiles in DMD then it's 
correct and just hope that GDC/LDC pick up the latest version at 
some point?

Re: Illegal behaviour or GDC bug?

2016-10-13 Thread ketmar via Digitalmars-d-learn 
sadly, gdc has way older frontend version than ldc (and dmd, of 
course). gdc is like 2.067, and ldc/dmd is 2.072. that this was 
fixed in later versions, but gdc is not updated yet.