IBT/BTI instructions and D compilers

[Walter Bright]

On 7/14/2023 11:41 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
> Ooooo are we challenging you to things that dmd-be can't possibly support and 
> you proving us wrong?

The dmd back end started out as an 8086 code generator. It survived:

1. adding 8087 instruction set (very different)
2. upgrade to 286
3. upgrade to 32 bit code
4. upgrade to 64 bit code
5. upgrade to SIMD
6. upgrade to VEX