'naked' keyword

[bearophile]

Duane Bailey:

> + Remove the naked keyword as an assembly 'instruction'.
> 
> + Instate it as a function property, similarly to 'extern (C)'. So you might see the following declaration:
> 
>     extern naked void flushIDT() {
>         mov EAX, [ESP+4]
>         lidt [EAX]
>         ret
>     }

I agree. putting "naked" as function attribute seems more correct.
As they say: "Wisdom begins by calling things by their right names."

Putting back the asm{} is a compromise syntax, useful to remove a special case from one of the stages of the compiler:

naked void flushIDT() {
    asm {
        mov EAX, [ESP+4]
        lidt [EAX]
        ret
    }
}


>except to reference arguments passed to it. In other words, it should not touch the stack.<
>And because D code should not be used (except perhaps for macros?),<

I don't fully understand what you say.
>From my very limited experiments with naked functions I think I may enjoy to add some I/O into naked functions: to be able to define new variables before the asm and to copy registers into some variable before the final return. What I am asking here may make useless the "naked" attribute, in such case please ignore what I have said here.

Bye,
bearophile