On 26-04-2012 13:37, Kagamin wrote:
On Wednesday, 25 April 2012 at 14:32:13 UTC, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
You're missing the point. D is providing (or trying to provide) a
standard inline assembler, but calling conventions are not
standardized enough for it to be useful across compilers. If you're
writing inline assembly because you *have* to, you don't just "version
it out", you have to write different logic for different compilers,
which is a maintenance nightmare.
Don't implement complex logic in assembly, extract it to D or C code.
Look, your argument is just plain invalid. Please reread what I said:
"[...] If you're writing inline assembly because you *have* to [...]".
Notice the emphasis. And even if we disregarded that, the language
boasts a standardized inline assembler, and therefore needs to actually
make it sane to use it. As it stands, we're no better than C and C++,
yet we claim we are.
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- Alex
