GDC review process.

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 19-06-2012 21:17, bearophile wrote:
> 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.

Just to make it clear: GDC still has GCC-style inline assembly.

>
> 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

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