H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

[Andrei Alexandrescu via Digitalmars-d]

On 2/1/15 8:09 AM, Timo Sintonen wrote:
> On Sunday, 1 February 2015 at 15:28:25 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> On 2/1/15 1:38 AM, Timo Sintonen wrote:
>>> The one of major issues is: how to access hardware. We need a language
>>> feature to access hardware registers.
>>
>> What features do Rust and Nim provide for such?
>>
>> Andrei
>
> I was not the one who compared the languages and I have never used rust
> or nim.  I just pointed out that d had no way to access registers
> properly. DMD and GDC optimize very heavily and may cache, reorder and
> remove any access they think is not needed.
> Other languages may not have such optimizations and registers can be
> accessed just with normal memory oprations.

How do volatileLoad() and volatileStore() in core.bitop fail to meet 
such needs? -- Andrei