How to deal with inline asm functions in Phobos/druntime?

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Tuesday, 7 April 2015 at 18:15:58 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote:
> It is fun to write these small asm blobs, but I am not sure how 
> maintainable all this will be.
>
> Confused :S

Hi Johan!

The functions in Druntime/Phobos exists because the MSVC runtime 
does not support 80bit reals which is a must-have for DMD.

If you are going to rewrite assembly snippets then please use 
ldc.llvmasm because of all the advantages you have listed. Plus, 
ldc.llvmasm do not disable function inlining which is also a big 
win.

Regarding std.math, there are already lot of places with versions 
for LDC. One reason is that LLVM intrinsics exists. Another 
reason is that LDC supports PPC, ARM and MIPS, too. At last, a 
reason is that the DMD ASM does not work. I prefer having 
rewritten assembly functions. But please note that there must 
always be a fallback to the core.stdc function because of the 
many supported architectures.

BTW: Many users of LDC want fast math functions. Having a better 
implementation of math functions is therefore desirable.

Regards,
Kai