Compile-time evaluation of real expressions?

[Robert Clipsham]

On 07/01/2012 00:31, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> I admit I've no idea how the D compiler implements compile-time
> evaluation, but is it possible for the compiler to actually emit code
> for compile-time functions containing asm blocks and, say, execute it in
> a sandbox, and read the values out from the machine registers? Or does
> this create more problems than it solves?

Doing this would mean you can't do cross-compilation, eg using x86 to 
compile for ARM. Which means you'd need to use a virtual machine for it, 
which is almost certainly more effort than it's worth.

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Robert
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