H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 2 February 2015 at 21:19:05 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 2/2/2015 9:17 AM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> Walter seems to dislike forced inlining for various reasons, 
>> preferring
>> inlining as a hint at the most, and he probably has a point in 
>> most
>> cases (let the compiler make the judgment). But in other 
>> cases, such as
>> the one in question, the user needs to override the compiler's 
>> decision.
>> Currently there's no way to do that, and it's a showstopper 
>> for those
>> users.
>
> This is a settled issue. After all, I wrote:
>
> http://wiki.dlang.org/DIP56

Erm. Quoting the DIP: "If a pragma specifies always inline, 
whether or not the target function(s) are actually inlined is 
implementation defined, although the implementation will be 
expected to inline it if practical."

This is exactly the absolutely unacceptable part that makes your 
DIP useless and last discussion has stalled (from my POV) exactly 
at the point where you refused to negotiate any compromises on 
that matter.