Inline Assembler bug fixes

[Nils Lankila]

On Saturday, 29 August 2020 at 06:36:03 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> The inline assembler is a surprisingly compact piece of code 
> for what it does, but is overly complex. It's also not used 
> that much, so it has tended to be neglected, and bug reports 
> have slowly accumulated for it. Some were 10 years old.
>
> But, once one figures out how it works, might as well go 
> through the bug list for iasm and see what can be done about 
> them.
>
> I'm happy to report that it has been whittled down to 3:
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12635 - the 
> description is a little vague and I can't determine what the 
> issue actually is
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12878 - this one is a 
> bit complicated to fix, but fortunately isn't critical
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15242 - an enhancement 
> request, not a bug
>
> The list:
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&keywords=iasm&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=232881&query_format=advanced
>
> My apologies to those who have been suffering waiting for these 
> fixes.
>
> Happy Assembling!

Thanks, that was a nice initiative.

There's another remaining one actually : 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16045.
It's about accessing global variable with -fPIC enabled. I 
believe this should work using RIP (https://godbolt.org/z/a18vnj) 
but this is not the case.