GDC review process.

[Russel Winder]

On Tue, 2012-06-19 at 20:19 +0200, Iain Buclaw wrote:
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> 1) D Inline Asm and naked function support is raising far too 
> many alarm bells. So would just be easier to remove it and avoid 
> all the other comments on why we need middle-end and backend 
> headers in gdc.

I can do without inline assembly language.  If I need assembly language
code, I can write a function in assembly language.

> 2) Code with #if V1 and V2 raised another bell with the request 
> to remove all code that relies on internal macros with proper 
> if() conditions. If something is always going to be turned off, 
> remove it.
> 
> So, we shall also be saying bye bye D1 in GDC.  We'll miss you!

I never used V1 (though I do have the Tango book) so enforcing V2 will
nto be a problem. Actually this means I can delete 65% of the SCons D
tool :-))))))))) 

> 3) For anyone who has submitted patches for Mingw and Apple - 
> sorry, but I'm going to have to yank out or alter certain bits.  
> Apple GCC is irrelevant now, and some Mingw checks look for 
> if(target) when it should really be checking if(host) and vice 
> versa!

Is Apple GCC irrelevant? Apple itself has switched to Clang but GCC is
still available via MacPorts – or am I missing something obvious, I am
only an occasional Mac OS X user. 

> Most discussion I would imagine be on the decision to remove D 
> inline assembler support from gdc.  So, nay sayers, do your 
> worst, but unfortunately there is a +1 here for removal.

I could put in a -1 if pushed, but +1 is fine by me!

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