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D.gnu - Dropping support for gcc 4.2.x to 4.4.x

reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
Morning,

I will be dropping support for a few older gcc versions in the next week and a
bit. I was thinking removing all code for everything up to gcc-4.5, meaning
gdc will no longer build with gcc 4.2.x, 4.3.x and 4.4.x releases.  If anyone
has any objections, or requires continued support for these older versions of
gcc, please let me know or shout up here, and I will make necessary
arrangements.


Regards
Iain
Jan 03 2012
next sibling parent reply Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-01-04 01:33, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Morning,

 I will be dropping support for a few older gcc versions in the next week and a
 bit. I was thinking removing all code for everything up to gcc-4.5, meaning
 gdc will no longer build with gcc 4.2.x, 4.3.x and 4.4.x releases.  If anyone
 has any objections, or requires continued support for these older versions of
 gcc, please let me know or shout up here, and I will make necessary
arrangements.


 Regards
 Iain


That means no support for the Apple GCC. It's stuck at 4.2, I guess they 
putting their effort on Clang and LLVM.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jan 03 2012
next sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 4 January 2012 07:14, Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> wrote:

 On 2012-01-04 01:33, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Morning,

 I will be dropping support for a few older gcc versions in the next week
 and a
 bit. I was thinking removing all code for everything up to gcc-4.5,
 meaning
 gdc will no longer build with gcc 4.2.x, 4.3.x and 4.4.x releases. =A0If
 anyone
 has any objections, or requires continued support for these older versio=




ns

 of
 gcc, please let me know or shout up here, and I will make necessary
 arrangements.


 Regards
 Iain



 That means no support for the Apple GCC. It's stuck at 4.2, I guess they
 putting their effort on Clang and LLVM.

 --
 /Jacob Carlborg


If I recall correctly, there are GCC binding to LLVM, are there not?
Apple has always been a bit of a difficult system for me as I don't
have the OS to test on (actually, this is true for Windows too).    I
have made a new branch in the repository that is at the moment current
and will maintain support for the older releases.  If someone wishes
to maintain it, I have no problem there.

--=20
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) =3D (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Jan 04 2012
parent "Trass3r" <un known.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 4 January 2012 at 21:40:28 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 If I recall correctly, there are GCC binding to LLVM, are there 
 not?


The post 4.2 one is DragonEgg.
It's a gcc plugin that replaces GCC's optimizers and code 
generators with those from llvm.
Jan 04 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 4 January 2012 14:39, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> wrote:

 On 4 January 2012 07:14, Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> wrote:

 On 2012-01-04 01:33, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Morning,

 I will be dropping support for a few older gcc versions in the next wee=






k

 and a
 bit. I was thinking removing all code for everything up to gcc-4.5,
 meaning
 gdc will no longer build with gcc 4.2.x, 4.3.x and 4.4.x releases. =A0I=






f

 anyone
 has any objections, or requires continued support for these older versi=






ons

 of
 gcc, please let me know or shout up here, and I will make necessary
 arrangements.


 Regards
 Iain



 That means no support for the Apple GCC. It's stuck at 4.2, I guess they
 putting their effort on Clang and LLVM.

 --
 /Jacob Carlborg


 If I recall correctly, there are GCC binding to LLVM, are there not?
 Apple has always been a bit of a difficult system for me as I don't
 have the OS to test on (actually, this is true for Windows too). =A0 =A0I
 have made a new branch in the repository that is at the moment current
 and will maintain support for the older releases. =A0If someone wishes
 to maintain it, I have no problem there.


Also, bare in mind I will be moving GDC fully across to trunk over the
next two months, this is just a first of many stop-gaps that will need
to be done to update the code and cipher off any compatibilty hacks in
favour of adding in and utilising new GCC tree codes that may help
improve code generation.

Regards

--=20
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) =3D (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Jan 04 2012
parent reply Leandro Lucarella <luca llucax.com.ar> writes:
Iain Buclaw, el  4 de enero a las 15:01 me escribiste:

 Also, bare in mind I will be moving GDC fully across to trunk over the
 next two months, this is just a first of many stop-gaps that will need
 to be done to update the code and cipher off any compatibilty hacks in
 favour of adding in and utilising new GCC tree codes that may help
 improve code generation.


Does this have anything to do with merging GDC into GCC? How is that
going BTW?

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Jan 05 2012
parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 5 January 2012 09:47, Leandro Lucarella <luca llucax.com.ar> wrote:

 Iain Buclaw, el =A04 de enero a las 15:01 me escribiste:

 Also, bare in mind I will be moving GDC fully across to trunk over the
 next two months, this is just a first of many stop-gaps that will need
 to be done to update the code and cipher off any compatibilty hacks in
 favour of adding in and utilising new GCC tree codes that may help
 improve code generation.


 Does this have anything to do with merging GDC into GCC? How is that
 going BTW?


It will be ready when it's ready.  My target is give or take when the
4.8 development window opens, I'll submit everything for inclusion.
By then I will have dropped all backwards compatibility and #ifdef'd
code.



--=20
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) =3D (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Jan 05 2012
parent Leandro Lucarella <luca llucax.com.ar> writes:
Iain Buclaw, el  5 de enero a las 23:21 me escribiste:

 On 5 January 2012 09:47, Leandro Lucarella <luca llucax.com.ar> wrote:

 Iain Buclaw, el  4 de enero a las 15:01 me escribiste:

 Also, bare in mind I will be moving GDC fully across to trunk over the
 next two months, this is just a first of many stop-gaps that will need
 to be done to update the code and cipher off any compatibilty hacks in
 favour of adding in and utilising new GCC tree codes that may help
 improve code generation.


 Does this have anything to do with merging GDC into GCC? How is that
 going BTW?


 
 It will be ready when it's ready.  My target is give or take when the
 4.8 development window opens, I'll submit everything for inclusion.
 By then I will have dropped all backwards compatibility and #ifdef'd
 code.


Cool, thanks!

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Pero corría sólo y siempre salí último.
Jan 06 2012
prev sibling parent reply Vasileios Anagnostopoulos <fithis2001 gmail.com> writes:
On 1/4/2012 9:14 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2012-01-04 01:33, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Morning,

 I will be dropping support for a few older gcc versions in the next 
 week and a
 bit. I was thinking removing all code for everything up to gcc-4.5, 
 meaning
 gdc will no longer build with gcc 4.2.x, 4.3.x and 4.4.x releases.  
 If anyone
 has any objections, or requires continued support for these older 
 versions of
 gcc, please let me know or shout up here, and I will make necessary 
 arrangements.


 Regards
 Iain


 That means no support for the Apple GCC. It's stuck at 4.2, I guess 
 they putting their effort on Clang and LLVM.


There is macports-gcc-4.5, macports-gcc-4.6
Jan 05 2012
parent Jacob Carlborg <doob me.com> writes:
On 2012-01-05 10:29, Vasileios Anagnostopoulos wrote:

 On 1/4/2012 9:14 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote:

 On 2012-01-04 01:33, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Morning,

 I will be dropping support for a few older gcc versions in the next
 week and a
 bit. I was thinking removing all code for everything up to gcc-4.5,
 meaning
 gdc will no longer build with gcc 4.2.x, 4.3.x and 4.4.x releases. If
 anyone
 has any objections, or requires continued support for these older
 versions of
 gcc, please let me know or shout up here, and I will make necessary
 arrangements.


 Regards
 Iain


 That means no support for the Apple GCC. It's stuck at 4.2, I guess
 they putting their effort on Clang and LLVM.


 There is macports-gcc-4.5, macports-gcc-4.6


Yes, I know you can use the FSF GCC on Mac OS X.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg
Jan 06 2012
prev sibling parent Manu <turkeyman gmail.com> writes:
This means some of those console toolchains won't work anymore, since
they're still on older versions... :(

On 4 January 2012 02:33, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> wrote:


 Morning,

 I will be dropping support for a few older gcc versions in the next week
 and a
 bit. I was thinking removing all code for everything up to gcc-4.5, meaning
 gdc will no longer build with gcc 4.2.x, 4.3.x and 4.4.x releases.  If
 anyone
 has any objections, or requires continued support for these older versions
 of
 gcc, please let me know or shout up here, and I will make necessary
 arrangements.


 Regards
 Iain
Jan 04 2012