On 19-06-2012 21:17, bearophile wrote:
Alex Rønne Petersen:
Because the guest wants to rearrange the host's home.
D better have a good reason to do so. So far, I have seen none.
Lot of time ago I have suggested to Walter to look at the D design
searching for features that are hard to implement on normal back-ends
(at that time I was helping a bit the development of LDC), and
reconsider them. So I agree asking for useless changes in a host's home
is bad.
On the other hand introducing one more calling convention is an additive
change for GCC, so it's not a rearrangement.
I have used inline asm many times in DMD, as I have used it many times
in Delphi, I like a lot.
Just to make it clear: GDC still has GCC-style inline assembly.
This is mostly a technical discussion, but I don't expect all Walter
opinions to be the same as the opinions of GCC designers.
Generally GDC should try to be as close to the D specs as possible :-)
Bye,
bearophile
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