OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[bearophile]

Walter Bright:

> The way to deal with this is to examine the implementation of 
> CheckedInt, and design a couple of compiler intrinsics to use 
> in its implementation that will eliminate the asm code.

OK, good. I didn't think of this option.


> Using intrinsics deals with this issue nicely, as the optimizer 
> knows about them.

OK.


> The problem, as I see it, is nobody actually cares about this.

Maybe you are right. I think I have never said there is a lot of 
people caring about this in D :-)

Bye,
bearophile