[dmd-internals] Inline assembler: Pause instruction

Walter Bright walter at digitalmars.com
Tue Aug 21 03:22:52 PDT 2012


On 8/21/2012 12:55 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
>
> I don't really understand why the inline assembler doesn't support the
> pause instruction.

It simply never came up.

>
> I know it's just an alias and that rep nop will do the same thing, but
> considering it's part of the Intel manual and most other assemblers
> support it today, is there really a good reason to not support it for
> consistency and compliance with the manual?
>

No.


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