• d-bugmail puremagic.com (21/21) Jul 04 2018 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19063

d-bugmail puremagic.com writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19063

          Issue ID: 19063
           Summary: Delete useless aliases in astcodegen.d once all host
                    compilers use 2.079.1 or later
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: greeenify gmail.com

The aliases were present to workaround a compiler bug which was fixed by :

compiler did not benefit from the fix. Not all bootstrapping compiler have been
bumped to 2.079 and as soon as there's a stable GDC release that includes this
fix we can remove the aliases.

See also: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8445

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