[ABI] 128bit integers and other vendor types

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Andrei Alexandrescu"  wrote in message 
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> Agreed. Conversely we'd be hamstringing ourselves by essentially making D 
> a poorer choice for implementing dmd than any other languages.

This doesn't make any sense.  Somehow D is a worse choice than C++ if we 
don't use phobos?

> I'm not among the compiler development regulars but it seems to me 
> converting to ddmd would be a mistake if we don't plan for using Phobos.

You are severely underestimating the benefits of D as a language.