Would it be possible for the maintainers of GDC and LDC to both support certain switches in use by the other compiler in order to reduce the frustration of this one grumpy user?

I keep switching back and forth between -frelease and -release,
and -march and -mcpu (is that even correct)?

I’m not sure what I should be doing to get LDC correctly matched with -mtune and -march.

I have of course ended up having to write batch files to abstract these annoyances away. When I’m examining generated code for my own correctness in godbolt.org Matt Godbolt’s Compiler Explorer, that’s when it drives me bonkers having to correct the switches when I switch between compilers.

It’s just a small thing, I know, but it would be nice to harmonise, and not too much work.

Take a look at ldmd and gdmd, they translate from dmd's arguments to ldc/gdc.

On Saturday, 27 May 2023 at 01:11:59 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
> Would it be possible for the maintainers of GDC and LDC to both support certain switches in use by the other compiler in order to reduce the frustration of this one grumpy user?
>
> I keep switching back and forth between -frelease and -release,
> and -march and -mcpu (is that even correct)?
>
> I’m not sure what I should be doing to get LDC correctly matched with -mtune and -march.
>
> I have of course ended up having to write batch files to abstract these annoyances away. When I’m examining generated code for my own correctness in godbolt.org Matt Godbolt’s Compiler Explorer, that’s when it drives me bonkers having to correct the switches when I switch https://poppyplaytimechapter3.io/ between compilers.
>
> It’s just a small thing, I know, but it would be nice to harmonise, and not too much work.

I think yes
As it would be beneficial for the GDC and LDC maintainers to harmonize some command line switches to reduce confusion for users who frequently switch between the two compilers. Implementing a standardized approach would improve the user experience and streamline the development process in that it would be easier for developers to focus on their code rather than configuring the compiler.