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D.gnu - GDC-4.9 in development

reply "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
Hi all,

Changes this weekend:

- New gdc-4.8 branch has been created for stable updates on 
D-2.062 and gcc-4.8.x
https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-4.8

- The main development trunk will switch to gcc-4.9 development 
(things may get unstable for the next couple of weeks).


Also, everyone welcome Johannes to the team. :-)


Regards
Iain.
Mar 23 2013
next sibling parent reply Manu <turkeyman gmail.com> writes:
Hooray! Welcome Johannes!
That guy rocks my world! :P

Will switching to 4.9 make it harder to support all the 4.8 (and below)
cross compilers out there? Like the console toolchains.


On 23 March 2013 20:33, Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> wrote:


 Hi all,

 Changes this weekend:

 - New gdc-4.8 branch has been created for stable updates on D-2.062 and
 gcc-4.8.x
 https://github.com/D-**Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-**4.8<https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-4.8>

 - The main development trunk will switch to gcc-4.9 development (things
 may get unstable for the next couple of weeks).


 Also, everyone welcome Johannes to the team. :-)


 Regards
 Iain.
Mar 23 2013
next sibling parent "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 12:45:10 UTC, Manu wrote:

 Hooray! Welcome Johannes!
 That guy rocks my world! :P

 Will switching to 4.9 make it harder to support all the 4.8 
 (and below)
 cross compilers out there? Like the console toolchains.


The main cross compiler scripts out there only support official 
release versions.  So it would be recommended to do the same and 
stick with gdc-4.8 (or 4.7) branch for the time being.  This is 
really more of a milestone for me to go off and do the final set 
of breaking changes and heavy lifting in gdc code. :o)

Regards
Iain
Mar 23 2013
prev sibling parent Johannes Pfau <nospam example.com> writes:
Am Sat, 23 Mar 2013 22:13:24 +1000
schrieb Manu <turkeyman gmail.com>:


 Hooray! Welcome Johannes!
 That guy rocks my world! :P


Thanks :-)
Iain and Daniel are doing all the hard work though.


 Will switching to 4.9 make it harder to support all the 4.8 (and
 below) cross compilers out there? Like the console toolchains.


I'll try to support gcc 4.7 for some more time. But a backport to gcc
versions older than 4.7 is not very likely.
Mar 25 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "Moritz Maxeiner" <moritz ucworks.org> writes:
On Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 10:33:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Hi all,

 Changes this weekend:

 - New gdc-4.8 branch has been created for stable updates on 
 D-2.062 and gcc-4.8.x
 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-4.8

 - The main development trunk will switch to gcc-4.9 development 
 (things may get unstable for the next couple of weeks).


 Also, everyone welcome Johannes to the team. :-)


 Regards
 Iain.


Just to be sure, does "for stable updates on
D-2.062 and gcc-4.8.x" also include D-2.063+ (not now but as it 
comes out I mean), because you say "stable updates" and I don't 
count D as stable. I'm asking because I need to decide on which 
branch (master or gdc-4.8) to use for the Archlinux package 
(gdc-git) that has to provide the newest git version of gdc, so 
if there're going to be improvements or support for new D 
versions in the master branch that won't be going into the 
gdc-4.8 branch it'd be good to know.

Thanks for your work,
Moritz
Mar 23 2013
parent Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On Mar 24, 2013 1:00 AM, "Moritz Maxeiner" <moritz ucworks.org> wrote:

 On Saturday, 23 March 2013 at 10:33:16 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 Hi all,

 Changes this weekend:

 - New gdc-4.8 branch has been created for stable updates on D-2.062 and




gcc-4.8.x

 https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/tree/gdc-4.8

 - The main development trunk will switch to gcc-4.9 development (things




may get unstable for the next couple of weeks).

 Also, everyone welcome Johannes to the team. :-)


 Regards
 Iain.



 Just to be sure, does "for stable updates on
 D-2.062 and gcc-4.8.x" also include D-2.063+ (not now but as it comes out


I mean), because you say "stable updates" and I don't count D as stable.
I'm asking because I need to decide on which branch (master or gdc-4.8) to
use for the Archlinux package (gdc-git) that has to provide the newest git
version of gdc, so if there're going to be improvements or support for new
D versions in the master branch that won't be going into the gdc-4.8 branch
it'd be good to know.

 Thanks for your work,
 Moritz


I'm kinda hoping to push the notion of D front-end minor releases again,
which would include all the latest bugfixes of the current D version, but
any new feature or breaking chances would be omitted.  This would be
suitable for gdc because putting on a new release of the front end is too
much hassle as it stands.

Regards
-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Mar 24 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On 03/23/2013 01:13 PM, Manu wrote:

 Will switching to 4.9 make it harder to support all the 4.8 (and below) cross
 compilers out there? Like the console toolchains.


Also ... how will that affect the ability to compile on Ubuntu using
gcc-snapshot?  Working on alpha/beta 13.04 that package has continued to be
updated, but now with feature freeze I imagine it will be left at the version it
currently occupies, which is from the 4.8 development branch.

Without wanting to put any pressure or demands on anyone, I do think it would be
very helpful to D if from now on the latest GDC (read: GDC with latest frontend,
runtime, Phobos) could be guaranteed to build using both the current stable and
development releases of GCC.  Are there any particular things that any of us
could do that would help make this easier?

Oh, and ... dare I ask the nasty question, what's the status of GDC becoming
formally integrated into GCC?  I can't remember whether this was originally
anticipated as happening with the 4.8 or 4.9 release.
Mar 26 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 26 March 2013 12:37, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <
joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> wrote:


 On 03/23/2013 01:13 PM, Manu wrote:

 Will switching to 4.9 make it harder to support all the 4.8 (and below)


 cross

 compilers out there? Like the console toolchains.


 Also ... how will that affect the ability to compile on Ubuntu using
 gcc-snapshot?  Working on alpha/beta 13.04 that package has continued to be
 updated, but now with feature freeze I imagine it will be left at the
 version it
 currently occupies, which is from the 4.8 development branch.


4.8 should be working with that.  There haven't been any API-level changes
in GCC in a while...




 Without wanting to put any pressure or demands on anyone, I do think it
 would be
 very helpful to D if from now on the latest GDC (read: GDC with latest
 frontend,
 runtime, Phobos) could be guaranteed to build using both the current
 stable and
 development releases of GCC.  Are there any particular things that any of
 us
 could do that would help make this easier?


This is why there are gdc-4.7, gdc-4.8 branches.  They are there to be
guaranteed to work with those gcc releases.  There won't be any support for
multiple gcc versions in one source.  This was done in the past (supporting
gcc-3.4 -> gcc-4.4,  then gcc-4.0 -> gcc-4.6).  It was a horrible mess and
caused lots of spaghetti code and macros to work around every single
incompatibility problem.


-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Mar 26 2013
prev sibling next sibling parent Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On 03/26/2013 03:44 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 This is why there are gdc-4.7, gdc-4.8 branches.  They are there to be
 guaranteed to work with those gcc releases.  There won't be any support for
 multiple gcc versions in one source.


I think you've misunderstood me (although I don't think I expressed myself well,
so mea culpa).  I recognize the existence and purpose of the gcc-4.7 and gcc-4.8
branches and it makes perfect sense to organize things that way.  It's just that
some remarks make it seem like new versions of the frontend will only be
guaranteed to work on 4.9.

That seems to me to be unfortunate, although I understand how the difficulties
of adapting new versions of the the frontend to GCC may make it inevitable.

I remember you discussing some work that would help to make it possible to just
pull in new versions of the frontend without any large re-working -- IIRC
replacing some direct calls to the DMD backend with a more generic API that
would be backend-agnostic -- and if there's in any case going to be some period
of instability due to switching to 4.9, I wonder if now might be the moment to
do that work?
Mar 26 2013
prev sibling parent reply Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com> writes:
On 26 March 2013 16:09, Joseph Rushton Wakeling <
joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> wrote:


 On 03/26/2013 03:44 PM, Iain Buclaw wrote:

 This is why there are gdc-4.7, gdc-4.8 branches.  They are there to be
 guaranteed to work with those gcc releases.  There won't be any support


 for

 multiple gcc versions in one source.


 I think you've misunderstood me (although I don't think I expressed myself
 well,
 so mea culpa).  I recognize the existence and purpose of the gcc-4.7 and
 gcc-4.8
 branches and it makes perfect sense to organize things that way.  It's
 just that
 some remarks make it seem like new versions of the frontend will only be
 guaranteed to work on 4.9.


Guaranteed is not the right word, but future releases of the frontend will
be present only on 4.9.  Though, people are free to backport to 4.8 or 4.7,
as Johannes has done in the past.

I remember you discussing some work that would help to make it possible to

 just
 pull in new versions of the frontend without any large re-working -- IIRC
 replacing some direct calls to the DMD backend with a more generic API that
 would be backend-agnostic -- and if there's in any case going to be some
 period
 of instability due to switching to 4.9, I wonder if now might be the
 moment to
 do that work?


See my pulls into DMD for a Target struct in the frontend.  It's not
complete, but it's slowly being pushed in.

The only expected instability will come from the planned removal of
typinf.c, toobj.c, todt.c - which are to be replaced by a implementation
that builds GCC trees directly.

-- 
Iain Buclaw

*(p < e ? p++ : p) = (c & 0x0f) + '0';
Mar 26 2013
parent reply Johannes Pfau <nospam example.com> writes:
Am Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:36:16 +0000
schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com>:



 Guaranteed is not the right word, but future releases of the frontend
 will be present only on 4.9.  Though, people are free to backport to
 4.8 or 4.7, as Johannes has done in the past.


FYI I'll also try to continue updating the frontend in gdc-4.7 and 4.8.



 Mar 26 2013



 next sibling parent  "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh quickfur.ath.cx>  writes:


On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 07:06:30PM +0100, Johannes Pfau wrote:

 Am Tue, 26 Mar 2013 17:36:16 +0000
 schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw ubuntu.com>:
 


 Guaranteed is not the right word, but future releases of the frontend
 will be present only on 4.9.  Though, people are free to backport to
 4.8 or 4.7, as Johannes has done in the past.


 
 FYI I'll also try to continue updating the frontend in gdc-4.7 and 4.8.


That's good news! I've been unable to get 4.8 to build in my Debian
system (probably due to some system- or configuration-specific breakages
somewhere... Debian multiarch isn't playing nice with GCC's build
scripts). Having the latest frontend available in gdc-4.7 would be a big
help to me.


T

-- 
Береги платье снову, а здоровье смолоду. 



 Mar 26 2013



prev sibling  parent reply Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net>  writes:


On 03/26/2013 07:13 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:

 That's good news! I've been unable to get 4.8 to build in my Debian
 system (probably due to some system- or configuration-specific breakages
 somewhere... Debian multiarch isn't playing nice with GCC's build
 scripts). Having the latest frontend available in gdc-4.7 would be a big
 help to me.


You were never able to get the latest to build on top of gcc-snapshot as per my
instructions? :-(

I can repeat them here now if it'd be helpful -- I've been building GDC like
this for a long time now, and never had any issues (bar a couple of makefile
errors that Iain quickly fixed).



 Mar 26 2013



  parent  "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw ubuntu.com>  writes:


On Tuesday, 26 March 2013 at 19:20:43 UTC, Joseph Rushton 
Wakeling wrote:

 On 03/26/2013 07:13 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:

 That's good news! I've been unable to get 4.8 to build in my 
 Debian
 system (probably due to some system- or configuration-specific 
 breakages
 somewhere... Debian multiarch isn't playing nice with GCC's 
 build
 scripts). Having the latest frontend available in gdc-4.7 
 would be a big
 help to me.


 You were never able to get the latest to build on top of 
 gcc-snapshot as per my
 instructions? :-(

 I can repeat them here now if it'd be helpful -- I've been 
 building GDC like
 this for a long time now, and never had any issues (bar a 
 couple of makefile
 errors that Iain quickly fixed).


What errors? No errors. Try pulling again. :o)



 Mar 31 2013