On Friday, 27 December 2024 at 20:08:08 UTC, Renato Athaydes
wrote:
Anyway, I thought this was cool and as I couldn't find anything
much about ASM in D, I thought this may be useful to others.
The reason is probably that D's regular inline assembly isn't
very desirable. It only supports x86 and x86-64, and offers less
fine-grained control than the alternative ['extended' assembly
syntax](https://dlang.org/spec/iasm.html#gcc) (which is very
similar to `gcc`'s inline assembler) offered by GDC and LDC2.
Additionally, I think many programmers who choose D are sick of
writing platform-specific code and just want their code to work
everywhere without bugs hidden behind `version` statements. If
inline assembly in D was popular then the original syntax
would've probably been extended to work with other processors.
