std.intrinsic and structs

[Bill Baxter]

Sean Kelly wrote:
> Jaheera wrote:
>> I had some questions about the std.intrinsic functions:
>>
>> Is it possible to do bt, bts and btr operations on ulongs as is 
>> already possible on uints?
> 
> No.  Though I suppose there's an outside chance we will get this feature 
> once DMD can compile 64-bit code.
> 
>> Why do the intrinsic operations not return bool, instead of 0 and -1?
> 
> Walter has historically had an aversion to bool return values (opEquals, 
> for example) because he felt that they were inefficient.  I believe 
> someone once demonstrated that this isn't actually true, but I'll be 
> darned if I can find the thread.
> 
> 
> Sean

I think the thread is linked to from one of the Doc comments pages. 
Probably the one for wherever opEquals and opCmp are described.

--bb