== Quote from Jason E. Aten (j.e.a...@gmail.com)'s article > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:31:14 +0000, dsimcha wrote: > > == Quote from Jason E. Aten (j.e.a...@gmail.com)'s article > >> Has anyone ported GDC over to gcc 4.5.2 by chance? Or even better, > >> already gotten GDC to work with DragonEgg (the LLVM plugin). > >> I know about LDC2 of course, but DragonEgg would obviate the need for > >> it because DragonEgg makes LLVM codegen a plugin to the GCC framework. > >> If not I may try to get this going myself. Any guidance? All > >> suggestions welcome. > > > > GDC already works (somewhat) with 4.5.2. You need to compile it from > > source, though. On Linux, this isn't hard. However, 4.5.2 is generally > > more buggy than 4.4.5. (These are the two versions I test and report > > bugs on somewhat frequently.) > That good news. I didn't realize that 4.5.2 was so buggy. How bad is it > -- are there alot of showstoppers, or are the bugs easy to workaround?
Clarification: The bugs are in GDC, not the underlying GCC. I don't remember the details but the big one is that a bunch of Phobos templates crash the compiler in 64 mode with 4.5.2.
