I've posted an overview of LDC 1.19.0 and DMD 2.090.0 on the blog, and a reminder that GDC is available as part of the GCC 9 series.

The blog:
https://dlang.org/blog/2020/01/08/recent-d-compiler-releases/

Reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/elq5yx/recent_d_compiler_releases_ldc_dmd_and_gdc/

On 08/01/2020 09:50, Mike Parker wrote:
> I've posted an overview of LDC 1.19.0 and DMD 2.090.0 on the blog, and a reminder that GDC is available as part of the GCC 9 series.
> 
> The blog: https://dlang.org/blog/2020/01/08/recent-d-compiler-releases/
> 
> Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/elq5yx/recent_d_compiler_releases_ldc_dmd_and_gdc/
> 

Thanks Mike!

>With the current GC implementation, it’s illegal to perform any GC
operations during finalization.

There are some exceptions, namely addRoot/addRange and removeRoot/removeRange and the iterators over roots or ranges.

I guess it might be possible to support some querying functions during finalization, too.

On Wednesday, 8 January 2020 at 18:17:40 UTC, Rainer Schuetze wrote:

>>With the current GC implementation, it’s illegal to perform any GC
> operations during finalization.
>
> There are some exceptions, namely addRoot/addRange and removeRoot/removeRange and the iterators over roots or ranges.
>
> I guess it might be possible to support some querying functions during finalization, too.

I'll replace the "any" with "some". Thanks!