ARM first & default LDC

[Iain Buclaw]

On Thursday, 17 December 2020 at 08:52:40 UTC, Walter Bright 
wrote:
> 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.
>

Though one critique would be that DMD is always behind on 
instruction set support, as of writing I don't think even 
AVX-512F can be used yet.