ldc-developers/ldc v1.18.0-beta1

LDC 1.18.0-beta1

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Big news

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.088.0+. (#3143, #3161)
• Bundled dub upgraded to v1.17.0+ with improved LDC support, incl. cross-compilation (e.g., --arch=x86_64-pc-windows-msvc). (dlang/dub#1755, Wiki)
• Init symbols of zero-initialized structs are no longer emitted. (#3131)
• druntime: DMD-compatible {load,store}Unaligned and prefetch added to core.simd. (ldc-developers/druntime#163)
• JIT improvements, incl. multi-threaded compilation. (#2758, #3154)

Platform support

• Supports LLVM 3.9 - 8.0.

Bug fixes

• Don't error out when initializing a void vector. (#3130, #3139)

Known issues

• Buggy older ld.bfd linker versions may wrongly strip out required symbols, e.g., ModuleInfos (so that e.g. no module ctors/dtors are run). LDC defaults to ld.gold on Linux.
• 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.