ARM first & default LDC

[Walter Bright]

On 12/16/2020 2:33 AM, Max Haughton wrote:
> I know I just like the dmd-style ones, it feels much more ergonomic than the 
> equivalent in C++. I'm not a huge fan of GCC style asm, but ultimately I guess 
> I'm bikeshedding.

The dmd-style ones hearken back to the good ole DOS days, where MASM matched the 
Intel documentation. It's an evolved version of the inline assembler used by 
Digital Mars C, which matches MASM and Intel.

Intel has kept the same syntax ever since, and DMD's inline asm has kept on 
matching it.

The same syntax is generated by obj2asm.

If DMD ever did an ARM back end, the syntax would match the official ARM 
vendor's CPU documentation.