OT (partially): about promotion of integers

[Walter Bright]

On 12/12/2012 3:12 AM, foobar wrote:
> Regarding performance and overflow checking, the example you give is x86
> specific. What about other platforms? For example ARM is very popular nowadays
> in the mobile world and there are many more smart-phones out there than there
> are PCs. Is the same issue exists and if not (I suspect not, but really have no
> idea) should D be geared towards current platforms or future ones?

I don't know the ARM instruction set.