GDC review process.

[Iain Buclaw]

Hi,

Had round one of the code review process, so I'm going to post 
the main issues here that most affect D users / the platforms 
they want to run on / the compiler version they want to use.



1) D Inline Asm and naked function support is raising far too 
many alarm bells. So would just be easier to remove it and avoid 
all the other comments on why we need middle-end and backend 
headers in gdc.


2) Code with #if V1 and V2 raised another bell with the request 
to remove all code that relies on internal macros with proper 
if() conditions. If something is always going to be turned off, 
remove it.

So, we shall also be saying bye bye D1 in GDC.  We'll miss you!


3) For anyone who has submitted patches for Mingw and Apple - 
sorry, but I'm going to have to yank out or alter certain bits.  
Apple GCC is irrelevant now, and some Mingw checks look for 
if(target) when it should really be checking if(host) and vice 
versa!


Most discussion I would imagine be on the decision to remove D 
inline assembler support from gdc.  So, nay sayers, do your 
worst, but unfortunately there is a +1 here for removal.


Regards
Iain