DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

[Steven Schveighoffer]

"Walter Bright" wrote
> Sean Kelly wrote:
>> From my understanding, the problem with doing this via inline assembler 
>> is
>> that some compilers can actually optimize inline assembler, leaving no 
>> truly
>> portable way to do this in language.  This issue has come up on
>> comp.programming.threads in the past, but I don't remember whether there
>> was any resolution insofar as C++ is concerned.
>
> There's always a way to do it, even if you have to write an external 
> function and link it in. I still don't believe memory mapped register 
> access justifies adding complex language features.

Who's adding?  We already have it and it works.

If volatile was not already a solved problem, I'd say yeah, sure it might be 
more trouble than it's worth.  But to remove it from the language seems 
unnecessary to me.

I was just asking for justification for *removing* it, not justification for 
having it :)

-Steve