On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 at 08:06:34 UTC, Johannes Pfau
wrote:
It might make sense to reconsider upstreaming our inline ASM
code. I think the main reason we didn't do that yet was that
the druntime developers think of druntime as a compiler
specific library anyway. And then there's no use in having GDC
specific ASM in a DMD specific druntime.
Even if gdc-specific stuff doesn't go into druntime, I would
think that it would make sense to update druntime where
appropriate to segregate the stuff that's compiler-specific so
that it's easy for the gdc and ldc teams to replace the parts
that they need to replace. That being said, I would think that
using version blocks to separate compiler-specific stuff would
have been appropriate and that ideally the gdc and ldc teams
wouldn't have their own versions of druntime or Phobos, but even
then, modularizing that stuff is likely to be more maintainable
than having it scattered throughout the code.
- Jonathan M Davis
