Re: [committed] d: Merge upstream dmd ff57fec515, druntime ff57fec515, phobos 17bafda79.

[Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org>]

Excerpts from Rainer Orth's message of November 21, 2023 4:59 pm:
> Hi Iain,
> 
>> This patch merges the D front-end and runtime library with upstream dmd
>> ff57fec515, and the standard library with phobos 17bafda79.
>>
>> Synchronizing with the upstream release candidate of v2.106.0.
>>
>> D front-end changes:
>>
>>     - Import dmd v2.106.0-rc.1.
>>     - New'ing multi-dimensional arrays are now are converted to a single
>>       template call `_d_newarraymTX'.
>>
>> D runtime changes:
>>
>>     - Import druntime v2.106.0-rc.1.
>>
>> Phobos changes:
>>
>>     - Import phobos v2.106.0-rc.1.
>>
>> Bootstrapped and regression tested on x86_64-linux-gnu/-m32, committed
>> to mainline.
> 
> either this patch or the previous one broke D bootstrap with GCC 9.  On
> both i386-pc-solaris2.11 with gdc 9.4.0 and sparc-sun-solaris2.11 with
> gdc 9.3.0, stage 1 d21 fails to link with
> 
> Undefined                       first referenced
>  symbol                             in file
> _D3dmd4root11stringtable34__T11StringValueTC3dmd5mtype4TypeZ11StringValue7lstringMFNaNbNiNjZPa d/func.o
> _D3dmd4root11stringtable34__T11StringValueTC3dmd5mtype4TypeZ11StringValue8toDcharsMxFNaNbNiNjZPxa d/func.o
> _D3dmd4root11stringtable34__T11StringValueTC3dmd5mtype4TypeZ11StringValue8toStringMxFNaNbNiNjZAxa d/func.o
> ld: fatal: symbol referencing errors
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [/vol/gcc/src/hg/master/local/gcc/d/Make-lang.in:236: d21] Error 1
> 
> I'm now running bootstraps with gdc 11.1.0 instead, which seems to work:
> in both cases, stage 1 d21 did link.
> 
> If this is intentional, install.texi should be updated accordingly.
> 

Thanks Rainer,

I don't think this should happen if we can help it just yet.  I'll have
a look to see which specific upstream change might have caused it.

Iain.