Inline assembly and CTFE

[Joseph Cassman]

On Thursday, 3 October 2013 at 22:40:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>>
>> Are there plans to eventually support the use of asm blocks in 
>> CTFE?
>
> No. Simulating a CPU is way, way beyond its charter.

Good to know. Thanks.

> But you don't want a compile time test for that! You want a 
> runtime test, as it should depend on what machine the program 
> is running under, which may not at all be the same one it 
> compiled on.

Thanks for the other two comments along these lines as well. Of 
course a build script tends to take care of such considerations, 
I was looking for a way to do it as much in D as possible. And 
yes, it was for the idea of building and running on the same 
processor type.

Appreciate the input.

Joseph