ldc-developers/ldc v1.7.0-beta1

LDC 1.7.0-beta1

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Big news

• Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.077.1. (#2401, #2430)
• C++ exceptions can now be caught in D code, for Linux and MSVC targets (and possibly more). A logical step after consolidating LDC's exception handling for non-MSVC targets with DMD's DWARF implementation. (#2405)

Platform support

• Supports LLVM 3.7 - 5.0.
• 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_1.7.0_android-arm.deb. To cross-compile, see the wiki.

Bug fixes

• ICE on chained ref-returning opIndex op-assign. (#2415)
• Windows: export visibility ignored for globals. (#2437)

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.
• Phobos does not compile on MinGW platform.
• ThinLTO may not work well with the ld.bfd linker, use ld.gold instead (-linker=gold).