Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

* Based on D 2.080.1.
* Win64: Breaking ABI change by passing vectors efficiently in registers.
* Config file extensions for cross-compilation.
* Support for DragonFly BSD.
* Various fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0

Thanks to all contributors!

On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 22:10:38 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.080.1.
> * Win64: Breaking ABI change by passing vectors efficiently in registers.
> * Config file extensions for cross-compilation.
> * Support for DragonFly BSD.
> * Various fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Nice work, LDC has caught up to the latest DMD version, and that's with the much faster DMD release cycle since last year, good to see.

On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 22:10:38 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.080.1.
> * Win64: Breaking ABI change by passing vectors efficiently in registers.
> * Config file extensions for cross-compilation.
> * Support for DragonFly BSD.
> * Various fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Thanks for the great work

Great to see LDC being as up to date with DMD as possible quickly.

Sadly due to a Phobos bug, I need D 2.081.0 :-(

Hopefully the Debian, Fedora, Homebrew, and Linuxbrew packagers get LDC 1.10.0 out quickly.

On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 22:10 +0000, kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
> 
> * Based on D 2.080.1.
> * Win64: Breaking ABI change by passing vectors efficiently in
> registers.
> * Config file extensions for cross-compilation.
> * Support for DragonFly BSD.
> * Various fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on
> Linux.
> 
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0
> 
> Thanks to all contributors!
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On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 09:11:32 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> Great to see LDC being as up to date with DMD as possible quickly.
>
> Sadly due to a Phobos bug, I need D 2.081.0 :-(

It is very easy to build ldc from source, I do it all the time, even on my Android tablet or smartphone:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source

If you're waiting on a Phobos fix, you can always backport it to LDC 1.10 and build it yourself.

You can also try out the WIP pull for the next release, available on its own branch, particularly if you're on linux where it's mostly working:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2752

On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 09:02 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> On Wednesday, 20 June 2018 at 09:11:32 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> > Great to see LDC being as up to date with DMD as possible quickly.
> > 
> > Sadly due to a Phobos bug, I need D 2.081.0 :-(
> 
> It is very easy to build ldc from source, I do it all the time, even on my Android tablet or smartphone:
> 
> https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_from_source

In the past I have been known to work with master head or release branch as a part of helping as a bit of a tester. However, there were issues, long story, so I started relying on packaged version. I guess I should try being a tester again.

> If you're waiting on a Phobos fix, you can always backport it to LDC 1.10 and build it yourself.
> 
> You can also try out the WIP pull for the next release, available on its own branch, particularly if you're on linux where it's mostly working:
> 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2752

I could be convinced to try this out once it gets committed into a branch.

I'll re-clone the repository as a start point.

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===========================================
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41 Buckmaster Road    m: +44 7770 465 077
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On Thursday, 21 June 2018 at 15:20:35 UTC, Russel Winder wrote:
> On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 09:02 +0000, Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
>> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/pull/2752
>
> I could be convinced to try this out once it gets committed into a branch.
>
> I'll re-clone the repository as a start point.

In case you haven't figured it out by now: it already is on a branch in the official repo, `merge-2.081`.

OK, I am now tracking merge-2.081 and it builds for me.

Now to see if Steve's fix to Phobos works for me.

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41 Buckmaster Road    m: +44 7770 465 077
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On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 at 22:10:38 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.10. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.080.1.
> * Win64: Breaking ABI change by passing vectors efficiently in registers.
> * Config file extensions for cross-compilation.
> * Support for DragonFly BSD.
> * Various fixes, most notably wrt. exception stack traces on Linux.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.10.0
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

So cooooool :)

I'd like to be concerned about its improvements to iOS & Android support.

On Thu, 2018-06-21 at 16:01 +0000, kinke via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:
> 
[…]
> In case you haven't figured it out by now: it already is on a branch in the official repo, `merge-2.081`.

Found indeed. And built.

dub run --compiler=$HOME/BuildArea/LDC/bin/ldc2

does the business. Steve's fix to Phobos works. I don't get a silent thread termination in Phobos now.


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