Change Log: 2.051

Bugs Fixed

• Bugzilla 603: Undocumented behaviour: case and default create a scope
• Bugzilla 632: Typedef/enum promotions spec ambiguous - ultimate base type or lowest common denominator?
• Bugzilla 679: Spec needs allowances for copying garbage collection
• Bugzilla 690: ABI not fully documented
• Bugzilla 1351: Discrepancies in the language specification
• Bugzilla 1466: Spec claims maximal munch technique always works: not for "1..3"
• Bugzilla 2080: ICE(mangle.c) alias corrupts type inference of static variables
• Bugzilla 2206: unnamed template mixin of class inside function or class has incorrect classinfo and mangleof
• Bugzilla 2385: spec says all structs are returned via hidden pointer on linux, but it uses registers
• Bugzilla 2392: Parsing ambiguity between function pointer declaration and function call
• Bugzilla 2406: Declarator2 definition error
• Bugzilla 2556: Property classinfo needs better documentation (RTTI, typeof, typeid, runtime type information)
• Bugzilla 2616: Undocumented behaviour: part-explicit, part-implicit instantiations of function templates are accepted
• Bugzilla 2651: class body declaration grammar incorrect
• Bugzilla 2652: DeclDef grammar is wrong
• Bugzilla 2734: Ambiguity in tokenizing: _._ as a float literal
• Bugzilla 2751: const/invariant/immutable static arrays: const(T)[N] and const(T[N]) are the same, but DMD treats them as different
• Bugzilla 2954: [tdpl] Appalling bug in associative arrays (D2 only)
• Bugzilla 2994: Incomplete "Predefined Versions" documentation
• Bugzilla 3020: No description is given why function may not be nothrow
• Bugzilla 3112: Specification on what operations call the GC is missing
• Bugzilla 3276: Recursion broken by alias template parameter
• Bugzilla 3554: Ddoc generates invalid output for documentation comments with non paired parentheses
• Bugzilla 3864: Dyn array allocations can be allowed in nothrow functions
• Bugzilla 4059: Incorrect C++ name mangling
• Bugzilla 4217: Function overloads are not distinguished when instantiating templates
• Bugzilla 4254: ICE(mtype.c): function with const inout parameter
• Bugzilla 4297: Nothrow functions cannot use constant dynamic array
• Bugzilla 4384: Cyclic dependency check for modules is broken
• Bugzilla 4434: ICE(mtype.c, 887) alias with const, shared, or immutable
• Bugzilla 4445: roundTo!ubyte(255.0) throws
• Bugzilla 4529: Segfault(typinf.c) involving typeid(typeof(functionName))
• Bugzilla 4638: Regression: new writeln does not recognize "wstring toString"
• Bugzilla 4728: Segfault(toctype.c) by protected/private constructor in an other module
• Bugzilla 4781: Segfault(mtype.c) with forward referenced typeof and .init
• Bugzilla 4864: ICE(statement.c) Crash on invalid 'if statement' body inside mixin
• Bugzilla 4901: std.algorithm.sort does not compile for interfaces.
• Bugzilla 4915: auto return type escapes function purity
• Bugzilla 5020: Forward implicit bool conversions to alias this
• Bugzilla 5053: Better error message for cyclic dependencies.
• Bugzilla 5054: Splitter example doesn't work
• Bugzilla 5094: No implicit conversion with "alias property this"
• Bugzilla 5107: Const-shared classes/structs not typed as shared
• Bugzilla 5110: Excess attribute propagation of structs and classes
• Bugzilla 5117: [CTFE] Member function call with rather complex this: side effects ignored
• Bugzilla 5120: ICE(mtype.c) void associative arrays
• Bugzilla 5131: Segfault(expression.c) opAssign and associative arrays (AA) are broken for types != this
• Bugzilla 5133: dmd fails to build rdmd (problem with startsWith)
• Bugzilla 5145: Regression(2.050, 1.065) override error with forward ref of superclass
• Bugzilla 5148: Incorrect C++ mangling of multiple const char* parameters
• Bugzilla 5154: Class Range does not work in writeln
• Bugzilla 5159: Segfault(interpret.c): calling a static function pointer variable in CTFE
• Bugzilla 5163: meaningless error message with front() applied to void[].
• Bugzilla 5164: Error without line number using "is (T...)"
• Bugzilla 5180: ICE(arrayop.c) in-place array operation on incompatible types
• Bugzilla 5182: ICE(expression.c): calling unittest from a function
• Bugzilla 5191: Combination of pure and nothrow result in a function that does nothing
• Bugzilla 5194: ddoc does not show modifiers on constructors such as pure or nothrow
• Bugzilla 5195: Forward references ignore const
• Bugzilla 5214: Compiler crash with array of empty {}
• Bugzilla 5218: Can't implicitly convert from "abc"w to wchar[3]
• Bugzilla 5220: Make std.conv.ConvError an Exception instead of an Error; deprecated ConvError and ConvOverflowError with ConvException and ConvOverflowException. Note that any code depending on the fact that these exceptions were Error gets broken.
• Bugzilla 5230: Regression(2.041, 1.057) ICE(tocsym.c) overriding a method that has an out contract
• Bugzilla 5238: PATCH: fix return of uninitialised var in interpret.c
• Bugzilla 5247: std.utf.stride() should not return 0xFF
• Bugzilla 5275: x86_64 related hidden function parameter mishandled
• Bugzilla 5293: std.math: Error: shift by -48 is outside the range 0..32
• Bugzilla 5294: -O optimization breaks for loop
• Bugzilla 5321: std.math: assumes X86 or X86_64 on FPU control word code
• Bugzilla 5322: std.math: version(Sparc) should be SPARC
• Bugzilla 5330: Druntime/Phobos: remove special treatment for GDC
• Bugzilla 5331: mach format problem
• Bugzilla 5340: isOutputRange!(Appender!string, int) must be false
• Bugzilla 5353: clear function is calling the destructor twice