Change Log: 2.073.0

If building MS-COFF object files with -m64 or -m32mscoff, this option specifies the reference to the C runtime library libname that is embedded into the object file containing main, DllMain or WinMain for automatic linking. The default is libcmt (release version with static linkage), the other usual alternatives are libcmtd, msvcrt and msvcrtd. If libname is empty, no C runtime library is automatically linked in.

Dmd will now use more modern looking theme for generated documentation, also see dmd#6173.

std.traits.Promoted gets the type to which a scalar type will be promoted in multi-term arithmetic expressions

import std.traits : Promoted;
static assert(is(typeof(ubyte(3) * ubyte(5)) == Promoted!ubyte));
static assert(is(Promoted!ubyte == int));

See the D specification on scalar type promotions for more information.

std.algorithm.searching.maxIndex gets the index of the maximum element of a range, according to a specified predicate. The default predicate is "a > b".

import std.algorithm.searching : maxIndex;
int[] a = [5, 4, 2, 1, 9, 10];
assert(a.minIndex == 5);

int[] a;
assert(a.minIndex == -1);

std.meta.staticIsSorted checks whether an AliasSeq is sorted according to some template predicate.

enum Comp(T1, T2) = T1.sizeof < T2.sizeof;

import std.meta : staticIsSorted;
static assert( staticIsSorted!(Comp, byte, uint, double));
static assert(!staticIsSorted!(Comp, bool, long, dchar));

Additionally, the compile-time performance of std.meta.staticSort has been greatly improved. Nevertheless, due to compiler limitations it is still an extraordinarily expensive operation to perform on longer sequences; strive to minimize such use.

std.algorithm.searching.minIndex gets the index of the minimum element of a range, according to a specified predicate. The default predicate is "a < b".

import std.algorithm.searching : minIndex;
int[] a = [5, 4, 2, 1, 9, 10];
assert(a.minIndex == 3);

int[] a;
assert(a.minIndex == -1);

It exposes a user-friendly way to query for function attributes:

import std.traits : hasFunctionAttributes;

// manually annotated function
real func(real x) pure nothrow @safe
{
    return x;
}
static assert(hasFunctionAttributes!(func, "@safe", "pure"));
static assert(!hasFunctionAttributes!(func, "@trusted"));

// for templated function types are automatically inferred
bool myFunc(T)(T b)
{
    return !b;
}
static assert(hasFunctionAttributes!(myFunc!bool, "@safe", "pure", "@nogc", "nothrow"));
static assert(!hasFunctionAttributes!(myFunc!bool, "shared"));

The synchronization between Phobos and Mir turned out to be a lot of work with litte gain. Users of std.experimental.ndslice are advised to switch to the upstream mir package.