Inter-compiler portability of asm between gdc and ldc2 (and dmd)

[Cecil Ward]

On Friday, 17 July 2020 at 00:38:23 UTC, kinke wrote:
> On Thursday, 16 July 2020 at 23:06:24 UTC, Cecil Ward wrote:
>> The serious problem though is the error
>>     "Error: symbolic names for operands in GCC-style assembly 
>> are not supported yet"
>> I use symbolic names for registers everywhere, for readability 
>> and for order-independence. So that means I am dead.
>
> Or hopefully motivated enough to open a PR with a little 
> extension to [1] - all that should be needed from the LDC side 
> is replacing all occurrences of the symbolic names in the 
> template string by their according operand index (LLVM has no 
> implicit support for these symbolic names). And of course 
> getting rid of the error msg in [2].
>
> [1] 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/424064438ec7f3ab202da982227e95660eca7c3e/gen/asm-gcc.cpp#L24-L53
> [2] 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/blob/424064438ec7f3ab202da982227e95660eca7c3e/gen/asm-gcc.cpp#L186-L194

Grave health difficulties mean that my abilities are very limited 
just now so I will have to hope that those with the required 
experience will have this on their things to do list at some 
point.

Thank you for pointing me at the right place,