On 27.07.2016 07:50, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/26/2016 10:24 PM, Shachar Shemesh wrote:
Most D programmers, however, expect the program not to continue
executing past
an assert(false). They might see it as a bug. Hence my question
whether that
means D is not meant for programming in privileged mode.
Obviously, HALT means any instruction of sequence of instructions that
stops the program from running. Some machines don't even have a HLT
instruction. Do you want to make a stab at writing this for the spec?
His argument is that DMD (also, the spec for x86) gets it wrong, because
DMD emits HLT, and HLT is not actually designed to terminate the program.
