Assembly Integration into Compiler

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 07.07.2011 20:58, schrieb eris:
> I'm sure it's a good assembler, I'm just thinking that if you wanted to
> cross-develop for ARM or some other CPU you would have to write the assembler for
> it rather than leverage an existing ARM assembler.
> 
> Perhaps its easy enough to snag the critical assembler components from an existing
> assembler, but it still means that D sources must carry all of the existing target
> assemblers.
> 
> Modularity...just saying.   But I realize that this also allows for very tight
> control over the compiled/assembled code.
> 
> Maybe this is no big deal when you consider that cross-development requires a
> custom build chain anyway.
> 
> Other than that, I love D/D2.  (Though trying to get LDC2/qtd to work right now is
> driving me a little nuts.  :-)
> 

It's all much better than having to use different assembler syntax on
different compilers (even when they're generating code for the same CPU).