I’m hitting #8980
The gdc compiler (GNU compiler for the D language) is lagging behind: the current version is 6.3.0, but Travis still has 4.8.5.
This makes it really impractical to implement GDC support in the intel-intrinsics library.
Could someone upgrade the GDC version used?
I can use https://explore.dgnu.org/ but this is not enough, it needs to be tested routinely.
cc: @ibuclaw, @klickverbot, @MartinNowak
Where do you get that information? GDC - D Programming Language for GCC lists versions 2.x from 2016, and http://gdcproject.org/downloads/LATEST (which is the file that d: gdc relies on) tells us that 4.8.5 is the latest version.
If you go to https://explore.dgnu.org/ and use the --version switch, it displays
gdc (GCC) 9.0.1 20190425 (experimental)
Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiler returned: 0
The downloads from GDC - D Programming Language for GCC use a D compiler frontend which is based on DMD 2.068.2, which dates back to Sep 23, 2015.
gdcproject.org/downloads/LATEST is wrong and the downloads on GDC - D Programming Language for GCC are not the latest you could find… probably related to GDC being merged into GCC?
So it would be real nice for the D community to have a more recent GDC in Travis.
You can suggest updates to https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-build/blob/master/lib/travis/build/script/d.rb.
Thanks.
@wilzbach any idea what’s going on?
Well we don’t have any newer binaries for GDC to install. Unfortunately, no one has bothered to do so and I think Ian and Johannes are still very busy with integrating gdc fully into gcc.
tl;dr: if there are newer binaries, please point me to them.
@wilzbach we managed to get compatibility of intel-intrinsics for GCC 4.8, 4.9 and 5.2. This issue is thus much less of a problem, as long as DMDFE >= 2.068