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

Sat Oct 3 09:52:56 UTC 2020

On Saturday, 3 October 2020 at 08:51:58 UTC, Paulo Pinto wrote:
> It is also what I favour, the excuse those other compilers 
> vendor give is that the clunky syntax they use is easier to 
> integrate with the compiler backend for the optimiser's 
> understanding of what is going on.

Huh? How come?

I think the only reason for this is that AT&T engineers had a 
preference for PDP11 syntax which they were used to and that it 
therefore became the default syntax on Unix and thus become 
associated with C compilers...