DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

Sean Kelly sean at invisibleduck.org
Thu Apr 24 13:44:32 PDT 2008


== Quote from Walter Bright (newshound1 at digitalmars.com)'s article
> 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.

Well... I'm looking forward to seeing what you all have planned for multiprogramming
in D!


Sean


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