On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 22:39:43 -0000, Stewart Gordon <smjg_1...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
On 11/03/2011 21:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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Presumably there's a reason that it's been provided for uint but not
ushort or ulong....
I think things in std.intrinsic are functions that tie directly to CPU
features,
True, but...
so presumably, the CPU only provides the possibility for 4-byte width.
D is designed to run on a variety of CPUs. Do you really think that
they all have a built-in instruction to reverse the order of 4 bytes but
no other number?
I have some in the cryptographic hash modules which I am trying to tidy up
for inclusion into phobos. They make use of bswap where possible but
otherwise have to do things the long way. It would be nice to have some
in std.intrinsic for 16, and 64 bit entities.
R
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