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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