• qznc (6/6) Jun 19 2013 LDC is explicitly mentioned in the LLVM 3.3 Release Notes [0]. In contra...
• Andrej Mitrovic (3/12) Jun 19 2013 It's also mentioned in the 3.1 notes, but I think it's just there
• David Nadlinger (9/15) Jun 19 2013 Kai Nacke is actually the one who has been doing most of the work
• Kai Nacke (8/17) Jun 19 2013 LDC is mentioned in all release notes of LLVM starting with 3.1.
• Walter Bright (2/15) Jun 23 2013 Awesome!

qznc <qznc web.de> writes:

LDC is explicitly mentioned in the LLVM 3.3 Release Notes [0]. In contrast 
to other frontends, LDC seems to follow upstream much more closely (or 
maybe is forced to due to bugs?).

Anyhow, kudos to David Nadlinger and whoever else was involved!

[0] http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#ldc-the-llvm-based-
d-compiler

"Andrej Mitrovic" <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 20:40:39 UTC, qznc wrote:
 LDC is explicitly mentioned in the LLVM 3.3 Release Notes [0]. 
 In contrast
 to other frontends, LDC seems to follow upstream much more 
 closely (or
 maybe is forced to due to bugs?).

 Anyhow, kudos to David Nadlinger and whoever else was involved!

 [0] 
 http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#ldc-the-llvm-based-
 d-compiler

It's also mentioned in the 3.1 notes, but I think it's just there 
as an example of a project that uses LLVM.

"David Nadlinger" <code klickverbot.at> writes:

On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 20:40:39 UTC, qznc wrote:
 LDC is explicitly mentioned in the LLVM 3.3 Release Notes [0]. 
 In contrast
 to other frontends, LDC seems to follow upstream much more 
 closely (or
 maybe is forced to due to bugs?).

 Anyhow, kudos to David Nadlinger and whoever else was involved!

Kai Nacke is actually the one who has been doing most of the work 
to keep LDC compiling against latest LLVM trunk (and by 
extension, also the releases). But yes, being able to build 
against latest LLVM was pretty much a necessity for us this time 
around, as Kai did quite a lot of work to improve support for 
Win64 and PPC64 on the LLVM recently, and LDC/MinGW also relies 
on a few tiny patches I submitted a while ago.

David

"Kai Nacke" <kai redstar.de> writes:

On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 20:40:39 UTC, qznc wrote:
 LDC is explicitly mentioned in the LLVM 3.3 Release Notes [0]. 
 In contrast
 to other frontends, LDC seems to follow upstream much more 
 closely (or
 maybe is forced to due to bugs?).

 Anyhow, kudos to David Nadlinger and whoever else was involved!

 [0] 
 http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#ldc-the-llvm-based-
 d-compiler

LDC is mentioned in all release notes of LLVM starting with 3.1. 
I follow LLVM development closely and try to keep LDC head in 
sync with LLVM trunk.

Personally I think that the release notes of LLVM are really good 
to spread the word about LDC and D. So I made sure that LDC is 
mentioned as external project. :-)

Kai

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 6/19/2013 11:02 PM, Kai Nacke wrote:
 On Wednesday, 19 June 2013 at 20:40:39 UTC, qznc wrote:
 LDC is explicitly mentioned in the LLVM 3.3 Release Notes [0]. In contrast
 to other frontends, LDC seems to follow upstream much more closely (or
 maybe is forced to due to bugs?).

 Anyhow, kudos to David Nadlinger and whoever else was involved!

 [0] http://llvm.org/releases/3.3/docs/ReleaseNotes.html#ldc-the-llvm-based-
 d-compiler

 LDC is mentioned in all release notes of LLVM starting with 3.1. I follow LLVM
 development closely and try to keep LDC head in sync with LLVM trunk.

 Personally I think that the release notes of LLVM are really good to spread the
 word about LDC and D. So I made sure that LDC is mentioned as external
project. :-)

Awesome!