ldc-developers/ldc v1.11.0-beta1

LDC 1.11.0-beta1

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Big news

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.081.0. (#2752)
• LLVM for prebuilt packages upgraded to v6.0.1. The x86_64 packages feature some more LLVM targets for cross-compilation (experiments): MIPS, MSP430, RISC-V and WebAssembly. (#2760)
• LDC on Windows now uses 80-bit compile-time reals. This allows for seamless cross-compilation to other x86(_64) targets, e.g., without real.min underflowing to 0 and real.max overflowing to infinity. (#2752)

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_1.11.0_android-arm.deb. To cross-compile from a desktop OS, see the wiki.

Bug fixes

• extern(C++) on Posix: Pass non-PODs indirectly by value. (#2728)
• extern(C++) on Windows/MSVC: Methods return all structs via hidden sret pointer. (#2720, #1935)
• Make GC2Stack IR optimization pass work as intended. (#2750)

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.