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.

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

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?

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.