Glad to announce LDC 1.19:

* Based on D 2.089.1+.
* LLVM upgraded to v9.0.1, incl. experimental AVR backend.
* New experimental prebuilt Android aarch64 package, including prebuilt x86_64 libs too. The Android armv7a package newly includes prebuilt i686 libs.
* Slight codegen improvements, incl. a breaking extern(D) ABI change for Posix x86[_64] targets, and dead branch elimination for if statements with constant condition (in the hopes of possibly increasing compilation speed).
* Fixed misc. CMake issues with some LLVM 9 configurations.
* Default Posix linker driver is now `cc` instead of `gcc`.
* Windows: Bundled MinGW-based libs upgraded to MinGW-w64 v7.0.0.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.19.0

Thanks to all contributors!

On Fri, Dec 20, 2019 at 03:19:43PM +0000, kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Glad to announce LDC 1.19:

Awesome!!  With every release, LDC is becoming more and more my go-to D compiler.  Big thanks to all involved in making this happen!


T

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On Friday, 20 December 2019 at 18:30:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> LLVM upgraded to v9.0.1, incl. experimental AVR backend.

Is that an upstream release?  I don't see a 9.0.1 in the LDC LLVM fork:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/llvm/releases

On Thursday, 26 December 2019 at 12:41:14 UTC, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
> On Friday, 20 December 2019 at 18:30:37 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> LLVM upgraded to v9.0.1, incl. experimental AVR backend.
>
> Is that an upstream release?  I don't see a 9.0.1 in the LDC LLVM fork:
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/llvm/releases

Oh, I see.  The details are covered in the LDC 1.19.0 release notes (there's a repo switch):
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.19.0