From: Richard Biener <richard.guenther@gmail.com>
To: Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] wwwdocs: Add D language changes and caveats to gcc-12/changes.html
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:43:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFiYyc2kj3Jk4ue__RRkZpi+aSoCsPsf-R9_Z3XfOmW1bbQW6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220817172404.1025025-1-ibuclaw@gdcproject.org>
On Wed, Aug 17, 2022 at 7:24 PM Iain Buclaw via Gcc-patches
<gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch belatedly adds the new features and changes to the D
> front-end during the GCC 12 development cycle, as well as a bullet in
> the caveat section for D's new bootstrapping requirements.
>
> If nothing stands out being really wrong, I'll go ahead and commit it by
> end of week.
>
> OK?
LGTM
> Regards,
> Iain.
>
> ---
> htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html | 78 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> 1 file changed, 77 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html b/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
> index ef957204..5bbad9bf 100644
> --- a/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
> +++ b/htdocs/gcc-12/changes.html
> @@ -72,6 +72,17 @@ You may also want to check out our
> <code>pool</code> arguments. Those configurations had been broken for
> some time.
> </li>
> + <li>
> + <strong>D:</strong>
> + Building and bootstrapping GDC, the D compiler, now requires a working GDC
> + compiler (GCC version 9.1 or later) and D runtime library, libphobos, as
> + the D front end is written in D. On some targets, libphobos isn't enabled
> + by default, but compiles and works if <code>--enable-libphobos</code> is
> + used. Other targets may require a more recent minimum version of GCC to
> + bootstrap. Specifics are documented for affected targets in the
> + <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/install/specific.html">manual</a> for
> + installing GCC.
> + </li>
> <li>
> <strong>Fortran:</strong>
> OpenMP code using the <code>omp_lib.h</code> include file can no longer be
> @@ -509,7 +520,72 @@ function Multiply (S1, S2 : Sign) return Sign is
> </li>
> </ul>
>
> -<!-- <h3 id="d">D</h3> -->
> +<h3 id="d">D</h3>
> +<ul>
> + <li>New features:
> + <ul>
> + <li>Support for the D programming language has been updated to version
> + 2.100.1 of the language and run-time library. Full changelog for this
> + release and previous releases can be found on the
> + <a href="https://dlang.org/changelog/2.100.1.html">dlang.org</a>
> + website.
> + </li>
> + <li>On supported targets, the <code>__traits(compiles)</code> expression
> + can now be used to determine whether a target-specific built-in is
> + available without error during CTFE
> + (<a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/PR101127">PR101127</a>).
> + </li>
> + <li>Partial support for directly importing C99 sources into a D
> + compilation (<a href="https://dlang.org/spec/importc.html">ImportC</a>)
> + has been added to the language. A notable missing feature is support
> + for preprocessing C imports, which can be worked around by
> + preprocessing all C sources used for importing ahead of time.
> + </li>
> + </ul>
> + </li>
> + <li>New language options:
> + <ul>
> + <li><code>-fcheck=</code>, enables or disables the code generation of
> + specific run-time contract checks.
> + </li>
> + <li><code>-fcheckaction=</code>, controls the run-time behaviour on an
> + assert, array bounds check, or final switch contract failure. The
> + default is <code>-fcheckaction=throw</code>.
> + </li>
> + <li><code>-fdump-c++-spec=</code>, dumps all compiled
> + <code>extern(C++)</code> declarations as C++ code to a file.
> + The supplimentary option <code>-fdump-c++-spec-verbose</code> turns on
> + emission of comments for ignored declaration in the generated C++ spec.
> + </li>
> + <li><code>-fextern-std=</code>, controls which C++ standard
> + <code>extern(C++)</code> declarations are compiled to be compatible
> + with. The default is <code>-fextern-std=c++17</code>.
> + </li>
> + <li><code>-fpreview=</code>, added to enable upcoming D language features
> + in the compiler.
> + </li>
> + <li><code>-frevert=</code>, added to revert D language changes to support
> + older D codebases that need more time to transition.
> + </li>
> + <li><code>-fsave-mixins=</code>, saves mixins expanded at compile-time to
> + a file.
> + </li>
> + </ul>
> + </li>
> + <li>Deprecated and removed features:
> + <ul>
> + <li>The <code>-Wtemplates</code> compiler switch has been removed, as it
> + had been superceded by <code>-ftransition=templates</code>, which more
> + accurately reports on which templates have been instantiated.
> + </li>
> + <li>The <code>-ftransition=dip25</code> and
> + <code>-ftransition=dip1000</code> compiler switches have been renamed
> + to <code>-fpreview=dip25</code> and <code>-fprefix=dip1000</code>.
> + </li>
> + </ul>
> + </li>
> +</ul>
> +
>
> <h3 id="fortran">Fortran</h3>
> <ul>
> --
> 2.34.1
>
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2022-08-17 17:24 Iain Buclaw
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