ASM extensions

[BCS]

James Dunne wrote:
> Hasan Aljudy wrote:
[...]
>>
>> You don't have to implement any of it, this could be a syntactic sugar.
>>
>> for example,
>> asm(intel)
>> {
>> ....
>> }
>>
>> would be a shortcut for
>> version(intel)
>> {
>> asm
>> {
>> .....
>> }
>> }
> 
> 
> Maybe you're missing the fact that DMD has to understand Intel-style ASM 
> syntax so that it may process it correctly for the real assembler...
> 

DMD already has to be able to parse the ASM enough to find the end of 
the block. Consider:

version(intel)
{
asm
{
.....
}
}
version(arm)
{
asm
{
.....
}
}

Regardless of the compiler, to correctly find the end of the version, it 
needs to find the end of the asm. The suggested addition would only 
requirer DMD to be able to ignore contents of the "wrong" asm block, 
e.i. correctly find the closing "}" (as it already needs to).

That said I have not used asm in D so, this is all of no use to me.