Why is it that no one writes with portability in mind in druntime?

[Iain Buclaw]

On Sunday, 24 November 2013 at 22:38:15 UTC, Jonathan M Davis 
wrote:
>
> But it is true that a large portion of our platform-specific 
> problems stem from
> types that vary in size.
>

Size *and* format. ie: big/little endian, 80/96/128bit reals, 
etc...

My biggest problem with stuff like this (see link in original 
post) is that after so much combined effort getting things 
working across multiple architectures - just take a look at any 
pull for version MIPS, PPC, PPC64, SPARC, ARM, etc... or my pull 
for implementing std.math for almost all (double-double reals the 
main one missing), IEEE real types - someone goes ahead and 
breaks support for all these targets and no one thinks or lifts 
an eyebrow over it.

Library maintainers need to stop writing code with the assumption 
that their code is only going to be used with dmd and x86, and 
they should have stopped doing it 6 months ago.