DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Apr 24 12:41:09 PDT 2008


== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
> > But what about things like accessing memory-mapped registers?  That is, as a
> > hint to the compiler to say "don't inline this; don't cache results in
> > registers"?
> I've written code that uses memory mapped registers. Even in programs
> that manipulate hardware directly, the percentage of code that does this
> is vanishingly small. It is a very poor cost/benefit ratio to support
> such a capability directly.
> It's more appropriate to support it via peek/poke methods (which can be
> builtin compiler intrinsics), or inline assembler.



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