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

[Cecil Ward]

On Friday, 17 July 2020 at 21:03:46 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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> On 17/07/2020 05:14, Cecil Ward via Digitalmars-d wrote:
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> There's nothing magical going on in order to resolve symbolic 
> names.  Each output, input and label operand has an index value 
> from 0 to N, and you just need to replace "%[symbol]" with "%3".
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> https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/f1b6e46c417224887c2f21baa6d4c538a25fe9fb/gcc/stmt.c#L528-L603 https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/blob/f1b6e46c417224887c2f21baa6d4c538a25fe9fb/gcc/stmt.c#L605-L663
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> This could even be done in the semantic pass of GccAsmStatement 
> (dmd/iasmgcc.d), so no need for LDC to duplicate this locally 
> (plus, you are in the safe land of D to do the required string 
> manipulation).

Many thanks Iain, that’s good of you. Your work is much 
appreciated as always.