Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Jason House wrote:
> 
>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>> Jason House wrote:
>>>
>>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>>> Tango uses a modified version of the Phobos GC, so I'm afraid there's
>>>>> no
>>>>> easy answer to your question.  However, if you can find any bugs in the
>>>>> Tango code I'll be more than happy to fix them.
>>>> That, in and of itself, is enough of a reason to switch over (and is one
>>>> of the reasons I suspected I'd be happier with tango... Walter is very
>>>> busy).  Which version(s) of gdc does tango actively support?  The latest
>>>> version, 0.23, only corresponds to D 1.007.  I'm not sure what changed
>>>> between 1.007 and 1.016+ that may break compatibility.  The 2.0 stuff
>>>> certainly may...
>>> Tango should work fine with GDC 0.23 (you need a patch to have it working
>>> with latest SVN of GDC) as long as your machine is x86. I believe
>>> Bugzilla 1258 is fixed in Tango, btw.
>>>
>> x86 is a bad assumption...  What about mac support?  I routinely run my
>> project on 32 bit x86, 64 bit x86, and mac.  The latter two are only
>> supported by gdc and is the big reason why I want to be able to use it.
> 
> GDC 0.23 have several bugs for non-x86 in particular, that affects Tango, it
> is not a lack of effort or wanting from our side that is the main
> problem :)


Where can I look up/track these issues?

Jason House wrote:

> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>> Jason House wrote:
>> 
>>> Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
>>>> Jason House wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Sean Kelly wrote:
>>>>>> Tango uses a modified version of the Phobos GC, so I'm afraid there's
>>>>>> no
>>>>>> easy answer to your question.  However, if you can find any bugs in
>>>>>> the Tango code I'll be more than happy to fix them.
>>>>> That, in and of itself, is enough of a reason to switch over (and is
>>>>> one of the reasons I suspected I'd be happier with tango... Walter is
>>>>> very
>>>>> busy).  Which version(s) of gdc does tango actively support?  The
>>>>> latest
>>>>> version, 0.23, only corresponds to D 1.007.  I'm not sure what changed
>>>>> between 1.007 and 1.016+ that may break compatibility.  The 2.0 stuff
>>>>> certainly may...
>>>> Tango should work fine with GDC 0.23 (you need a patch to have it working with latest SVN of GDC) as long as your machine is x86. I believe Bugzilla 1258 is fixed in Tango, btw.
>>>>
>>> x86 is a bad assumption...  What about mac support?  I routinely run my project on 32 bit x86, 64 bit x86, and mac.  The latter two are only supported by gdc and is the big reason why I want to be able to use it.
>> 
>> GDC 0.23 have several bugs for non-x86 in particular, that affects Tango, it is not a lack of effort or wanting from our side that is the main problem :)
> 
> 
> Where can I look up/track these issues?

I try to mark the tickets in question with the GDC keyword, in the Tango trac. Not all may have corresponding entries in the bugzilla and vice versa though. We have been waiting for a new GDC version for a while now.

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