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[bearophile]

Alex Rønne Petersen:

> Because the guest wants to rearrange the host's home.
>
> D better have a good reason to do so. So far, I have seen none.

Lot of time ago I have suggested to Walter to look at the D 
design searching for features that are hard to implement on 
normal back-ends (at that time I was helping a bit the 
development of LDC), and reconsider them. So I agree asking for 
useless changes in a host's home is bad.

On the other hand introducing one more calling convention is an 
additive change for GCC, so it's not a rearrangement.

I have used inline asm many times in DMD, as I have used it many 
times in Delphi, I like a lot.

This is mostly a technical discussion, but I don't expect all 
Walter opinions to be the same as the opinions of GCC designers.
Generally GDC should try to be as close to the D specs as 
possible :-)

Bye,
bearophile