Array indexing/offset inline asm ambiguity

Chris Nicholson-Sauls ibisbasenji at gmail.com
Sat Mar 16 22:43:09 PDT 2013


On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 01:54:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/16/2013 5:24 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
>> But Walter seems to think this issue
>> not worth addressing: 
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9738
>
> Not exactly. I felt:
>
> The inline assembler uses Intel syntax, and for better or 
> worse, that's what it
> is.
>
> We need to either stick with it, as it is fairly well 
> understood by asm
> programmers, or use D syntax. Some hybrid in between will be 
> liked by nobody.

---Warning: hijack ahead---

How reasonable would it be to consider a HLA-like syntax, at 
least as a basis?
( 
http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/HLADoc/HLARef/HLARef_html/HLAReference.htm#50401283_pgfId-1001263 
)

Call me crazy (everyone else does) but I prefer it over any other 
I've used.


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