DMD 1.029 and 2.013 releases

[Jarrett Billingsley]

"Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message 
news:fut4bg$30a2$1 at digitalmars.com...
> Jarrett Billingsley wrote:
>> Wait, you mean the volatile statement was never even implemented, even in 
>> D1?
>
> All it did was apply C's volatile semantics to the enclosed statements, 
> which is really not good enough for multithreading.

No, it's not.  But it's good enough for system programming, when you have 
things like memory-mapped registers and memory locations that change on 
interrupts.  Relying on ASM or other languages to do something so 
fundamental in a language that's _meant_ to be a system programming language 
seems like a terrible omission.