On Sunday, 17 March 2013 at 01:54:27 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 3/16/2013 5:24 PM, David Nadlinger wrote:
But Walter seems to think this issue
not worth addressing:
http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=9738
Not exactly. I felt:
The inline assembler uses Intel syntax, and for better or
worse, that's what it
is.
We need to either stick with it, as it is fairly well
understood by asm
programmers, or use D syntax. Some hybrid in between will be
liked by nobody.
---Warning: hijack ahead---
How reasonable would it be to consider a HLA-like syntax, at
least as a basis?
(
http://www.plantation-productions.com/Webster/HighLevelAsm/HLADoc/HLARef/HLARef_html/HLAReference.htm#50401283_pgfId-1001263
)
Call me crazy (everyone else does) but I prefer it over any other
I've used.
