On Thursday, 12 December 2013 at 20:46:26 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 12/12/2013 12:33 PM, Max Samukha wrote:
Don't you find it somewhat alarming that both alternative
compilers follow
neither the standard inline asm nor ABI?
I find it unfortunate. But it also can be difficult and time
consuming to reimplement an assembler for those back ends, so I
can understand why it isn't a priority.
LDC in fact implements DMD-style inline assembly (occasionally
there are bugs, though, as it's a complete reimplementation).
I don't think it would be unreasonable to work towards a common D
ABI on the various Posix x86_64 systems, but given that DMD comes
with its own bespoke exception handling implementation which
doesn't really make sense to implement in GDC/LDC (as libunwind
is the platform standard on Linux/… anyway), there is not really
much motivation to start work on aligning the other parts of the
ABI either.
David
