ldc-developers/ldc v1.10.0-beta2

LDC 1.10.0-beta2

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(Changes since 1.10.0-beta1 are marked with (new).)

Big news

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.080.0+ (DMD stable from May 31st). (#2665, #2719) (new)
  • No support for Objective-C class/static methods yet. (#2670)
• Breaking Win64 extern(D) ABI change: Pass vectors directly in registers, analogous to the MS vector calling convention. (#2714) (new)
• Config file: For cross-compilation, support additional sections named as regex for specific target triples, e.g., "86(_64)?-.*-linux": { … };; see the comment in etc/ldc2.conf. (#2718) (new)

Platform support

• Supports LLVM 3.7 - 6.0.
• Windows: Supports Visual Studio/C++ Build Tools 2015 and 2017.
• Android: A native 32-bit ARM package for the Termux app is included, install it with dpkg -i ldc-beta_1.10.0_android-arm.deb. To cross-compile from a desktop OS, see the wiki.

Bug fixes

• CMake and druntime fixes for DragonFlyBSD, thanks Diederik! (#2690, #2691, #2692, ldc-developers/druntime#138, ldc-developers/druntime#139, ldc-developers/phobos#64)
• DMD-style inline asm label naming issue in overloaded functions. (#2667, #2694)
• Linux: misc. exception stack trace fixes & extensions, incl. default DWARF v4 debuginfo emission with LLVM 6. (#2677)
• Predefine version D_HardFloat instead of D_SoftFloat for -float-abi=softfp. (#2678)
• Bash completion installed to the wrong place with custom CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX. (#2679, #2179, #2693)
• Default to ld.gold linker for ThinLTO on Linux. (#2696)
• Fix compilation issues on 64-bit macOS with DMD host compiler ≥ 2.079. (#2703, #2704) (new)
• druntime: Fix core.stdc.stdint.(u)int64_t on 64-bit macOS etc. (#2700) (new)
• Define D_AVX and D_AVX2 if the target supports them. (#2711) (new)
• Fix sporadic front-end segfaults. (#2713) (new)
• Win64: Fix extern(C++) ABI wrt. passing small non-POD structs by value. (#2706) (new)
• Misc. druntime/Phobos fixes and upstream cherry-picks for ARM, AArch64, MIPS etc. (new)

Known issues

• LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.