H1 2015 Priorities and Bare-Metal Programming

[H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2015 at 09:53:37PM +1100, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> "Walter Bright"  wrote in message news:maq7f1$2hka$1 at digitalmars.com...
[...]
> >It's like the old joke where a captain is asked by a colonel how he'd
> >get a flagpole raised. The captain replied with a detailed set of
> >instructions. The colonel said wrong answer, the correct response
> >would be for the captain to say: "Sergeant, get that flag pole
> >raised!"
[...]
> We have inline assembler because sometimes being explicit is what's
> needed.  I would consider using forceinline in the same situations
> where inline assembly is a viable option.  eg interfacing with
> hardware, computation kernels

Computation colonels? :-D
 

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