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What's New for D 1.015
Jun 5, 2007New/Changed Features
Bugs Fixed
- Added missing \n to exception message going to stderr.
- Fixed default struct initialization for CTFE.
- Bugzilla 1226: ICE on a struct literal
- Fixed gc memory corrupting problem.
What's New for D 1.014
Apr 26, 2007New/Changed Features
- Added associative array literals
- Added struct literals
- Array element assignments can now be done in CTFE
Bugs Fixed
- Bugzilla 1000: writefln fails on nested arrays
- Bugzilla 1143: Assertion failure: '0' on line 850 in 'template.c' - On specialization of IFTI template parameters.
- Bugzilla 1144: template mixin causes DMD crash
- Bugzilla 1146: mixin + assert() crashes compiler
- Bugzilla 1153: dmd assertion failure
- Bugzilla 1159: Various mixins cause "CompileExp::semantic" message, some crash DMD
- Bugzilla 1174: Program hangs creating an array of enums with nonzero initializer
- Bugzilla 1177: no longer works inside CTFE functions.
- Bugzilla 1180: the GC failes to handle large allocation requests propperly
- Bugzilla 1189: Reverse the titles on web pages
What's New for D 1.013
Apr 19, 2007New/Changed Features
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed crash with std.format and static arrrays
- Bugzilla 582: Cannot slice mixed tuples
- Bugzilla 594: can't cast arrayliteral statically
- Bugzilla 595: can't append to array/arrayliteral statically
- Bugzilla 997: [Regression] Struct-returning function that conditionally passes the result of another function straight through doesn't work (NRVO bug?)
- Bugzilla 1090: Attribute specification: "}" vs "end of scope"
- Bugzilla 1091: Wrong size reserved for critical sections
- Bugzilla 1094: switch bug
- Bugzilla 1096: Mysterious hang with toUTCString + UTCtoLocalTime + d_time_nan
- Bugzilla 1098: symbol collision in d/dmd/expression.c between math.h and port.h
- Bugzilla 1119: Internal error: ../ztc/cgcod.c 2190 (template instantiation)
- Bugzilla 1121: Assertion codegen issue with templated function
- Bugzilla 1132: DMD calling linker over commandline
- Bugzilla 1134: incorrect calling convention used
- Bugzilla 1135: invariant keyword parsing is messed up
- Bugzilla 1147: Typo in phobos/std/file.d: 4069 should be 4096
- Bugzilla 1148: Problems returning structs from functions
- Bugzilla 1150: Compiler creates wrong code
- Bugzilla 1156: Installed libraries need to be passed in different order
- Bugzilla 1163: Can't initialize multiple variables with void.
What's New for D 1.012
Apr 12, 2007New/Changed Features
Bugs Fixed
- D.announce/8190 now works with -v1
- D.announce/8193
- Bugzilla 532: Wrong name mangling for template alias params of local vars
- Bugzilla 1068: stack corruption with mixins and function templates
- Bugzilla 1089: Unsafe pointer comparison in TypeInfo_Pointer.compare
- Bugzilla 1127: -v1 doesn't disable the ref and macro keywords
What's New for D 1.011
Apr 11, 2007New/Changed Features
- Extended Codeview symbolic debug output with LF_OEM types.
- Extended Dwarf symbolic debug output with DW_TAG_darray_type, DW_TAG_aarray_type, and DW_TAG_delegate types.
- Added keywords ref and macro.
- final classes cannot be subclassed.
- final for variables now works.
- ref now works as a replacement for inout.
- Fixed so multiple type inferring declarations like auto a=1,c=2; works.
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed problem with overloading of function templates that have the same template parameter list, but different function parameters.
- Fixed problems with type deduction from specializations that are template instances.
- Fixed assert template.c(2956) s->parent
- Got .property to work for typeof.
- Fixed bug in DW_AT_comp_dir output for some linux versions.
- D.announce/8027
- D.announce/8047
- D/51800
- Bugzilla 1028: Segfault using tuple inside asm code.
- Bugzilla 1052: DMD 1.009 - aliasing functions from superclasses may result in incorrect conflicts
- Bugzilla 1080: Failed to link to std.windows.registry
- Bugzilla 1081: with using real and -O option, dmd generate bug code
- Bugzilla 1082: The .offsetof property yields a signed int, a size_t would be more appropriate
- Bugzilla 1086: CodeView: missing line information for string switch
- Bugzilla 1092: compiler crash in ..\ztc\cod1.c 2528
- Bugzilla 1102: switch case couldn't contain template member
- Bugzilla 1108: Indexing an int[] not evaluatable at compile time
- Bugzilla 1122: dmd generate bad line number while reporting error message
What's New for D 1.010
Mar 24, 2007New/Changed Features
- Added template partial specialization derived from multiple parameters.
- Added Object.factory(char[] classname) method to create class objects based on a string.
- Added std.gc.malloc(), std.gc.extend() and std.gc.capacity().
- Added std.string.isEmail() and std.string.isURL().
- Added std.stdio.readln().
- Improved gc performance for array resize and append.
- Bugzilla 64: Unhandled errors should go to stderr
- Added predefined Ddoc macro DOCFILENAME
Bugs Fixed
- Fixed Broken link in http://digitalmars.com/d/comparison.html
- Fixed problem with CTFE and array literals
- Bugzilla 931: D Strings vs C++ Strings Page Incorrect
- Bugzilla 935: Extern Global C Variables
- Bugzilla 948: operatoroverloading.html - Rationale section is both out of date and incomplete
- Bugzilla 950: Missing filename and line number: conflict between implicit length in [...] and explicit length declared in the scope
- Bugzilla 959: smaller ddoc documentation issue
- Bugzilla 1056: segfault with pragma(msg) inside CTFE
- Bugzilla 1062: Cannot catch typedef'd class
- Bugzilla 1074: Dead link to std.c.locale webpage
What's New for D 1.009
Mar 10, 2007New/Changed Features
Bugs Fixed
- D/49928 1
- D.announce 7563
- Bugzilla 146: Wrong filename in DWARF debugging information for templates
- Bugzilla 992: CTFE Failure with static if
- Bugzilla 993: incorrect ABI documentation for float parameters
- Bugzilla 995: compile-time function return element of Tuple / const array
- Bugzilla 1005: dmd: tocsym.c:343: virtual Symbol* FuncDeclaration::toSymbol(): Assertion `0' failed.
- Bugzilla 1009: CodeView: out and inout parameters are declared void*
- Bugzilla 1014: Error with character literal escaping when generating header with -H
- Bugzilla 1016: CTFE fails with recursive functions
- Bugzilla 1017: CTFE doesn't support (string == string)
- Bugzilla 1018: regression: Error: divide by 0
- Bugzilla 1019: regression: missing filename and line number: Error: array index X is out of bounds [0 .. Y]
- Bugzilla 1020: regression: mov EAX, func
- Bugzilla 1021: CTFE and functions returning void
- Bugzilla 1022: CodeView: unions have zero length in typeleafs and datasymbols
- Bugzilla 1026: dmd SEGV when checking length of Tuple elements when length == 0
- Bugzilla 1030: ICE one-liner; struct in delegate
- Bugzilla 1038: explicit class cast breakage in 1.007
What's New for D 1.007
Feb 20, 2007New/Changed Features
- Comparison operators are no longer associative; comparison, equality, identity and in operators all have the same precedence.
- out and inout parameters are now allowed for compile time function execution.
- The .dup property is now allowed for compile time function execution.
- Updated lib to insert COMDATs into symbol table.
- Class references can no longer be implicitly converted to void*.
Bugs Fixed
- D/48806 crash
- D/48811
- D/48845
- D/48869
- D/48917
- D/48953
- D/48990
- D/49033
- D.announce/7496
- Bugzilla 968: ICE on compile-time execution
- Bugzilla 974: compile-time parenthesis bug
- Bugzilla 975: compile-time const array makes dmd crash
- Bugzilla 980: If a function tries to concatenate a char to a empty array, dmd complains that the function can't be evaluated at compile time
- Bugzilla 981: CFTE fails in non-template and functions that takes no args.
- Bugzilla 986: Internal error: e2ir.c 1098
What's New for D 1.006
Feb 15, 2007New/Changed Features
- Added -Jpath switch, which is now required in order to import text files.
- Enhanced -v output to include actual filename.
- name string for TypeInfo_Struct now part of the TypeInfo_Struct comdat.
- Compile time execution of functions
Bugs Fixed
- Bugzilla 960: New: DMD 1.0 is in the past -- not the future
- Codeview for classes now gives correct LF_CLASS
What's New for D 1.005
Feb 5, 2007New/Changed Features
- -v now emits pragma library statements and imported file names
- deprecated === and !== tokens no longer recognized
- length can no longer shadow other length declarations
- Added MixinStatements, MixinExpressions, and MixinDeclarations.
- Added ImportExpressions.
- Added std.metastrings
Bugs Fixed
- Bugzilla 761: std.format.doFormat fails for items of a char[][] containing %s
- Bugzilla 784: regression: [Issue 402] compiler crash with mixin and forward reference
- Bugzilla 787: incorrect documentation of std.ctype.isprint
- Bugzilla 788: Compiler rejects hex floats in the format: HexPrefix HexDigits . HexDigits(opt) with binary-exponent-part required
- Bugzilla 789: const initialization in forwarding constructors doesn't work
- Bugzilla 791: dhry.d example doesn't compile in 1.0 without trivial change
- Bugzilla 794: std.math.exp2(0) equals 0 instead of 1
- Bugzilla 800: writefln() on an associative array fails hard
- Bugzilla 821: segfault with char array copy; mistaken samples in doc
- Bugzilla 831: Warning!! String literals are read-only one some platforms.
- Bugzilla 832: NRVO: return inside foreach results in junk
- Bugzilla 835: RegExp.test wrongly matches strings on case insensitive attribute
- Bugzilla 846: Error 42: Symbol Undefined _D1a7__arrayZ
- Bugzilla 848: typo in C sorting example
- Bugzilla 862: Selectively importing a nonexistent identifier results in spurious and incorrect error message
- Bugzilla 872: Assertion in expression.c caused by taking typeof of "this.outer" in nested classes.
- Bugzilla 875: crash in glue.c line 700
- Bugzilla 886: std.zlib uncompression routines do not mark result as containing no pointers
- Bugzilla 887: TypeInfo does not correctly override opCmp, toHash
- Bugzilla 888: -cov and _ModuleInfo linking bugs
- Bugzilla 890: Returning char[4] and assigning to char[] produces unexpected results.
- Bugzilla 891: Crash when compiling the following code (tested with 1.0, 1.001 and 1.002)
- Bugzilla 893: The profile flag no longer seems to work on Linux x86 64
- Bugzilla 894: base class with implemented abstract method problem
- Bugzilla 897: fix default dmd.conf file
- Bugzilla 898: std.conv.toInt doesn't raise ConvOverflowError
- Bugzilla 901: Comparison of array literals fails
- Bugzilla 903: Example with printf and string literals crashes
- Bugzilla 908: compiler dies trying to inline static method call to nonstatic method in template code.
- Bugzilla 910: Error in description of "this" and "super" keywords
- Bugzilla 913: deprecated tokens still listed
- Bugzilla 915: dmd generate bad form return(retn 4) for invariant func
- Bugzilla 916: regression: Internal error: ../ztc/gloop.c 1305
- Bugzilla 917: regression: circular typedefs cause segfaults
- Bugzilla 924: GC collects valid objects
- D.announce/6983
What's New for D 1.004
Jan 26, 2007New/Changed Features
Bugs Fixed
- Bugzilla 892: Another bug in the new GC - pointers in mixins
What's New for D 1.003
Jan 26, 2007New/Changed Features
Bugs Fixed
What's New for D 1.002
Jan 24, 2007New/Changed Features
Bugs Fixed
- D.announce/6893: ClassInfo.flags incorrectly set
- D.announce/6906: Three subtle cases of tail recursion item 1 and 2
What's New for D 1.001
Jan 23, 2007New/Changed Features
- tail recursion works again
- New type aware GC
Bugs Fixed
- Bugzilla 621: When inside a loop, if you call break inside a try block the finally block is never executed
- Bugzilla 804: missing linux functions
- Bugzilla 815: scope(exit) isn't executed when "continue" is used to continue a while-loop
- Bugzilla 817: const char[] = string_literal - string_literal gets included for every reference
- Bugzilla 819: mention response files in cmd line usage
- Bugzilla 820: gc should scan only pointer types for pointers
- Bugzilla 823: frontend: incorrect verror declaration in mars.h
- Bugzilla 824: "mov EAX, func;" and "lea EAX, func;" generate incorrect code
- Bugzilla 825: dmd segmentation fault with large char[] template value parameter
- Bugzilla 826: ICE: is-expression with invalid template instantiation