"Johannes Pfau" wrote in message news:m51upj$u2v$1...@digitalmars.com...
But does this really make sense? What makes a variable a variable? For
example the GCC backends has builtin support for extern, static, const,
manifest variables, but no way to specify an address for an extern
variable. Is there a reason for this?
Makes sense to me. I image gcc backends don't natively support this
because it's equivalent to casting to a pointer and dereferencing.
Do we really need it with ref return and force-inline?
pragma(always_inline)
ref ubyte PORTB() @property { return *cast(ubyte*)0x1000; }
That should also result in optimal asm, right?
