Hi everyone!

On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 1.1.0-alpha1 release!
It is based on the 2.071.1 front-end and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8.

This brand new alpha release contains a of of bug fixes and changes. Highlights are the support for profile-guided optimization and cross-module inlining. But there are lot of other changes - be sure to read the release notes!

We now bundle DUB with LDC in the binary distribution files. The Win64 binary packages now includes the 32bit libraries, too.

Please, try this alpha1 release. Every feedback we get can only improve the compiler. There are still some known bugs. Most important, use dub --compiler=ldmd2 on Windows to prevent a path naming problem.

Be sure to read the change log at the GitHub release page which also has the package download links:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.1.0-alpha1

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

05ebe074f9b992175bb72254221e7622 ldc-1.1.0-alpha1-src.tar.gz
496468678bfea3d6ad6e230ac4dab495 ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-linux-armv7hf.tar.xz
332423f6a6d017bb5a96c7bc767442b5 ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-linux-x86.tar.xz
4b6662684bd570af4e106898ef06ab6d ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
d92d7c2b8b7fe12bb8445731db04e042 ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
2294dca757cefa8803afa71e23e33752 ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-win32-msvc.zip
41a7203f21c4f636b0d08c31c04e82f8 ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-win64-msvc.zip

Regarding the binaries:
The Linux x86/x86_64 binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with gcc 4.8.x, ldc2 1.0.0 and LLVM 3.8.0. They work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or later) without installing additional software.
The Linux armv7hf binary is built on Gentoo/ARM with gcc 4.9.x, ldc2 ldc2 1.0.0 and LLVM 3.8.0.

The OS X binaries are built with LLVM 3.8.0 on OS X 10.10.

The Win32 and Win64 MSVC versions are built with VS2015 (update 2) using ldc2 1.0.0 and LLVM trunk in release mode. The distribution now contains a precompiled libcurl 7.46.0 from http://d.darktech.org/libcurl.html. For any other VisualStudio version you need to rebuild the library.
You find the build script here: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc-scripts/blob/master/ldc2-win64/RELEASE.proj

Please be sure to report any bugs at https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues, and feel free to drop by at the digitalmars.D.ldc forums (http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D.ldc) for any questions or comments.

Thanks to everybody involved in making this happen!

Regards,
Kai

On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 06:24:15 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 1.1.0-alpha1 release!

Congratulations. I am very excited about the cross-module inlining and PGO.

A couple of questions:

1. Is this release already registered with Travis? I would like to test my projects there instead of manually.

2. Is @fastmath going to be applied in std.math?

3. Is the ARM assembly for bigint in Phobos master already? I don't remember seeing a PR for it.

4. Does the D front-end make your job easier or harder?

On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 16:35:30 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> A couple of questions:
>
> 1. Is this release already registered with Travis? I would like to test my projects there instead of manually.

I just updated the LATEST file. Should be usable now.

> 2. Is @fastmath going to be applied in std.math?

No plans yet.

> 3. Is the ARM assembly for bigint in Phobos master already? I don't remember seeing a PR for it.

Yes, it is. The PR was against lts-master. See https://github.com/ldc-developers/phobos/pull/31.

> 4. Does the D front-end make your job easier or harder?

It depends at which part of the work you look.

Merging the frontend hasn't changed. If there are AST changes then the LDC code generation has to be changed, too.

Writing and extending the CMake description is now a bit harder because you have to consider an additional language.

And personally I am developing on Windows with VisualStudio. I now lost the ability to debug the frontend. Yes, this is really hard (for me, not for the GDB folks)!

Regards,
Kai

On 15 Jul 2016, at 21:09, Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> I just updated the LATEST file. Should be usable now.

Shouldn't we just update LATEST on the actual release? Otherwise, we'll potentially be breaking people's "ldc" Travis builds with an unstable compiler.

 — David

On 15.07.2016 22:09, Kai Nacke wrote:
> And personally I am developing on Windows with VisualStudio. I now lost
> the ability to debug the frontend. Yes, this is really hard (for me, not
> for the GDB folks)!

Latest (alpha) release of Visual D allows seamless integration of mago for D, but the VS debug engine for C++ code. That requires to build the D code with a recent DMD version.

CodeView debug information with LDC is within reach, I've seen some (non-integer) variable watches working a couple of weeks ago (with a small patch to LDC).

On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 20:09:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>> 3. Is the ARM assembly for bigint in Phobos master already? I don't remember seeing a PR for it.
>
> Yes, it is. The PR was against lts-master. See https://github.com/ldc-developers/phobos/pull/31.

I meant dlang/phobos, but that kind of answers my question: no. Can we expect to see this in mainline Phobos anytime soon?

On 17 Jul 2016, at 2:15, Jack Stouffer via digitalmars-d-ldc wrote:
> On Friday, 15 July 2016 at 20:09:35 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
>>> 3. Is the ARM assembly for bigint in Phobos master already? I don't remember seeing a PR for it.
>>
>> Yes, it is. The PR was against lts-master. See https://github.com/ldc-developers/phobos/pull/31.
>
> I meant dlang/phobos, but that kind of answers my question: no. Can we expect to see this in mainline Phobos anytime soon?

Kai's implementation uses LDC-specific inline asm syntax, so: Not in this form. The code could be adapted to other compilers, though.

 — David

http://ldc.acomirei.ru

Updated to this compiler and LLVM 3.9

On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 16:54:05 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
> http://ldc.acomirei.ru
>
> Updated to this compiler and LLVM 3.9

Fantastic, I did not know about your site yet!
Could you also add LDC 0.17 and 1.0.0?
Please also change the compiler version to 1.1.0-alpha1 so it is clear that it is not the final release.

Can we link to your site from the wiki?

On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 17:46:59 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> On Thursday, 21 July 2016 at 16:54:05 UTC, Temtaime wrote:
>> http://ldc.acomirei.ru
>>
>> Updated to this compiler and LLVM 3.9
>
> Fantastic, I did not know about your site yet!
> Could you also add LDC 0.17 and 1.0.0?
> Please also change the compiler version to 1.1.0-alpha1 so it is clear that it is not the final release.
>
> Can we link to your site from the wiki?

It's already in wiki.
https://wiki.dlang.org/Online_compilers

OK, changed to alpha1.

I can, but i don't see a reason to add older versions :)