On Dec 14, 2013 10:51 PM, "Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote: > > On 12/14/2013 11:46 AM, Iain Buclaw wrote: >> >> I honestly don't know how one would be able to make AsmStatement work >> for non-x86 architectures. At least this is not possible in GDC >> unless you want to resort to doing things in a way that are shamed >> upon (like checking the definition of a particular TARGET macro :) > > > I have no idea why it would be hard for non-x86? >
Unlike dmd - gdc (the front end language) doesn't know/doesn't care about what precise platform/target it is compiling for from within gcc's framework. It may know features of the target - pointer size, real type, va_list, which direction the stack grows - just not enough to know which architecture to interpret for. So writing an assembler for ARM was an interesting exercise, but gave zero brownie points in terms of usefulness.
