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[Stewart Gordon]

On 11/03/2011 21:51, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
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>> Presumably there's a reason that it's been provided for uint but not ushort or ulong....
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> I think things in std.intrinsic are functions that tie directly to CPU features,

True, but...

> so presumably, the CPU only provides the possibility for 4-byte width.

D is designed to run on a variety of CPUs.  Do you really think that they all have a 
built-in instruction to reverse the order of 4 bytes but no other number?

Stewart.