GDC review process.

Alex Rønne Petersen alex at lycus.org
Tue Jun 19 11:51:34 PDT 2012


On 19-06-2012 20:44, bearophile wrote:
> Iain Buclaw:
>
>> 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.
>
> I suggest to try to do the opposite, that it to try to increase
> the current conformance of GDC to D/DMD specs (like introducing D
> calling conventions, if they are missing).
>
> Bye,
> bearophile

Not gonna happen. The D calling convention is Windows/32-bit only. 
Implementing a new calling convention in all major compiler back ends is 
not something you do trivially. Further, I doubt the GCC maintainers 
would actually approve of doing this.

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Alex Rønne Petersen
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