DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Thu Apr 24 13:20:11 PDT 2008


Sean Kelly wrote:
> From my understanding, the problem with doing this via inline assembler is
> that some compilers can actually optimize inline assembler, leaving no truly
> portable way to do this in language.  This issue has come up on
> comp.programming.threads in the past, but I don't remember whether there
> was any resolution insofar as C++ is concerned.

There's always a way to do it, even if you have to write an external 
function and link it in. I still don't believe memory mapped register 
access justifies adding complex language features.


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