[dmd-concurrency] real

[Andrei Alexandrescu]

That fosters non-portable code.

Andrei

Walter Bright wrote:
> Since D is a systems language, it should work where available and not 
> (compile time error) when not available. Leave it to the programmer to 
> select the most appropriate workaround where it does not work.
> 
> Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> It looks like we're converging on this:
>>
>> - shared pointer read/assignment works
>>
>> - shared numeric data read/assignment works, EXCEPT for real
>>
>> Real is an odd beast - it has no guaranteed width and is mostly 
>> system-dependent. Should we guarantee atomic assignment to 
>> shared(real), leave it to the platform, or just disallow it entirely?
>>
>>
>> Andrei
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