DIP62: Volatile type qualifier for unoptimizable variables in embedded programming

[Brad Roberts via Digitalmars-d]

On 7/15/14, 6:25 PM, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> I've been jawboning about peek/poke for years - finally decided to implement it.
>
>    https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13138

I don't have any skin in this particular discussion, but it's worth pointing out here that while 
it's cute that builtin's can be added, when they're not part of the language definition, they're not 
really part of a portable solution.