Sorry, still no Mac OSX 10.6

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.051.zip


http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.036.zip

Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.

Walter Bright wrote:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.036.zip

If you have functions like this:

   void foo(T[3] array)

and want them to behave the same way, add the ref keyword:

   void foo(ref T[3] array)

as static arrays are no longer passed by reference, unless explicitly marked as such.

Functions can also return static arrays now.

On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Walter Bright <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> Sorry, still no Mac OSX 10.6
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.051.zip
>
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.036.zip
>
> Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.
>

I don't see it mentioned anywhere that -X doesn't crash anymore.  Was there a bug number for that?

Also, I thought -X was going to include ddoc comments for elements,
but it doesn't look like it does.
Adding it would be good for the simple IDEs it's supposed to support,
so that they can pop up the ddoc description along with the suggested
completions. (VisualAssist does this for instance)

It would also allow people to build external documentation generators by parsing the JSON file instead of the D source.

--bb

Bill Baxter wrote:
> Also, I thought -X was going to include ddoc comments for elements,
> but it doesn't look like it does.

It does if you also throw -D. I know, that shouldn't be necessary.

I hope LDC will be able to use this version.

---------------

This function:

auto bar() {
    float[4] a = 0.0;
    return a;
}

May use 4 writes instead of a call to __memset32.

---------------

The limit for array size is large enough:

import std.stdio: writeln;
const int N = 86_312;
auto foo3(int[N] a) {
    a[2] = 5;
    return a;
}
void main() {
    int[N] a2;
    writeln(foo3(a2)[0 .. 10]);
}

---------------

This page may explain how static arrays are passed, because they don't work as C ones now: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/abi.html

Regarding the documentation, the page about contract programming:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dbc.html
Points to this page for the Class Invariants:
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/class.html#Invariant
But there are Struct invariants too, so I think it may be better to talk about Class Invariants and Struct invariants in the dbc.html page.

---------------

It may be positive to have a warning that warns where large fixed-sized arrays are passed by value, to avoid performance problems.

Bye,
bearophile

bearophile, el  6 de noviembre a las 05:48 me escribiste:
> I hope LDC will be able to use this version.
> 
> ---------------
> 
> This function:
> 
> auto bar() {
>     float[4] a = 0.0;
>     return a;
> }
> 
> May use 4 writes instead of a call to __memset32.
> 
> ---------------
> 
> The limit for array size is large enough:
> 
> import std.stdio: writeln;
> const int N = 86_312;
> auto foo3(int[N] a) {
>     a[2] = 5;
>     return a;
> }
> void main() {
>     int[N] a2;
>     writeln(foo3(a2)[0 .. 10]);
> }
> 
> ---------------
> 
> This page may explain how static arrays are passed, because they don't work as C ones now: http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/abi.html
> 
> Regarding the documentation, the page about contract programming:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/dbc.html
> Points to this page for the Class Invariants:
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/class.html#Invariant
> But there are Struct invariants too, so I think it may be better to talk about Class Invariants and Struct invariants in the dbc.html page.
> 
> ---------------
> 
> It may be positive to have a warning that warns where large fixed-sized arrays are passed by value, to avoid performance problems.

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Walter Bright wrote:
> Sorry, still no Mac OSX 10.6
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.051.zip
> 
> 
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/2.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.2.036.zip
> 
> Many thanks to the numerous people who contributed to this update.

Thank you! This may be the most important release to numerous DMD users on Windows. You have no idea how much hair we've collectively lost over OPTLINK (we could probably make a side business manufacturing wigs). I can't believe 424 is fixed :D That's greatly appreciated!


-- 
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http://h3.team0xf.com/
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Tom S wrote:
> Thank you! This may be the most important release to numerous DMD users on Windows. You have no idea how much hair we've collectively lost over OPTLINK (we could probably make a side business manufacturing wigs). I can't believe 424 is fixed :D That's greatly appreciated!

You're welcome. I'm just sorry it took so long.

Great news!

The link in the following line on the releases list is broken again (points to 2.035):

   "Download latest D 2.0 alpha  D compiler for Win32 and x86 linux"

I propose removing that line altogether as the latest compiler is obviously the one with the highest version number. :)

Ali

Ali Cehreli wrote:
> Great news!
> 
> The link in the following line on the releases list is broken again (points to 2.035):
> 
>    "Download latest D 2.0 alpha  D compiler for Win32 and x86 linux"
> 
> I propose removing that line altogether as the latest compiler is obviously the one with the highest version number. :)
> 
> Ali
> 

Or maybe having it pointing to a page which redirects to the latest download (that way you can have multiple links pointing to the latest download without having to update all of them, just where the redirect page redirects to).