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[dmd-beta] Possibly important fix for 2.0.66 beta?
Jul 12, 2014
H. S. Teoh
Jul 12, 2014
Brad Roberts
Jul 12, 2014
H. S. Teoh
July 11, 2014
Just today I fixed an embarrassing bug with int/uint array comparisons, found by somebody on d-learn; perhaps this might be worth pushing into 2.0.66 beta / 2.0.66 release?

	https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/881

It seems to be the kind of thing we want to fix ASAP, due to bad rep that might come from having blatant bugs in such fundamental language constructs as array comparisons. :)


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July 11, 2014
There's hundreds of open bugs of various levels of embarrassment.  That's not exactly a recently introduced bug.  We need to be focusing on the regressions and keeping the release cycle fast enough that we're not trying to slip more and more fixes in once the beta cycle has started.  There's going to be a next release for more fixes to reside.

My 2 cents,
Brad

On 7/11/14, 5:08 PM, H. S. Teoh via dmd-beta wrote:
> Just today I fixed an embarrassing bug with int/uint array comparisons,
> found by somebody on d-learn; perhaps this might be worth pushing into
> 2.0.66 beta / 2.0.66 release?
>
> 	https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime/pull/881
>
> It seems to be the kind of thing we want to fix ASAP, due to bad rep
> that might come from having blatant bugs in such fundamental language
> constructs as array comparisons. :)
>
>
> T
>
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On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 05:51:44PM -0700, Brad Roberts wrote:
> There's hundreds of open bugs of various levels of embarrassment. That's not exactly a recently introduced bug.  We need to be focusing on the regressions and keeping the release cycle fast enough that we're not trying to slip more and more fixes in once the beta cycle has started.  There's going to be a next release for more fixes to reside.
[...]

Fair enough. I suppose the fact that this particular bug has been around for so long and only recently did somebody run into it, is proof that perhaps it's a very rarely encountered case, so probably doesn't warrant urgent treatment.


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