On 01/01/16 1:29 AM, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
Rikki Cattermole wrote:
You misunderstand, its hardcoded into the CTFE evaluator. That is what
an intrinsic is.
What do you mean hardcoded into the CTFE evaluator? Surely you aren't
suggesting that the D compiler contains its own implementation of the
functions already implemented in libc?
Yes and no.
It has a small subset of functions which it consider intrinsics.
Intrinsics are only a way to tell the compiler hey go call x and give me
the result.
Remember, if you don't have the source you can't execute it.
Unless you provide an escape hatch which is what intrinsics are.
