DIP69 - Implement scope for escape proof references

[Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d]

On 2014-12-07 01:49, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:

> I have std.simd sitting here, and I really want to finish it, but I
> still don't have the tools to do so.
> I need, at least, forceinline to complete it, but that one *is*
> controversial - we've talked about this for years.
>
> GDC and LDC both have a forceinline, so I could theoretically support
> those compilers, but then I can't practically make use of them without
> some sort of attribute aliasing system, otherwise I need to triplicate
> the code for each compiler, just to insert a different (compiler
> specific) forceinline attribute name. It'd be really great if we
> agreed on just one.

I don't know about LDC but at least GDC allows you to use UDA's instead 
of a pragma. Then you can create a dummy attribute for DMD (and LDC):

version (GNU)
     import gcc.attribute

else
{
     struct attribute
     {
         string attr;
     }
}

@attribute("forceinline") void foo ();

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg