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[Iain Buclaw]

On Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 20:04:12 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 6/19/2012 11:57 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> To quote from one of the i386 backend maintainers:
>> ---
>> "Does D *really* require a new calling convention?
>
> No, but the idea was to allow D to innovate on calling 
> conventions without disturbing code that needed to interface 
> with C.
>
>> Also does it *really* require naked support?
>> I think naked support is a bad idea
>> and people who require naked support should be writing an 
>> assembly
>> function wrapper."
>> ---
>
> Naked support allows people to write max efficient assembler 
> without needing to exit the language and use the (often 
> miserable) standalone assembler.

 From what I gathered from further discussion, it made sense for 
embedded platforms, such as ARM, but not x86.