On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 17:45:32 UTC, singingbush wrote:
It would be far more helpful if running `gdc --version` gave
some indication of the version of D it's aligned to (which was
2.076 last time I checked).
This would be indeed nice. But so far we have to compile and run
the following code:
```D
import std.stdio, std.compiler;
void main()
{
writeln(version_major, ".", version_minor);
}
```
It's ironic that I have exactly the opposite problem. I need to
check for the backend version from inside of the running program,
and this isn't easy. I resorted to using this hack:
```D
// GDC11 was the first version to start supporting getTargetInfo
traits
bool detect_gdc11()
{
version(GNU) { return __traits(compiles,
__traits(getTargetInfo, "cppStd")); }
else return false;
}
```
Just seen
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/nuphsvwkdlygdcxai...@forum.dlang.org about D 2.098 being in GCC, still can't tell if that's what I have based on the output though.
It landed in the git repository and is going to be released as
part of GDC 12.
