On Jan 5, 2012, at 2:08 PM, Manu wrote: > On 5 January 2012 23:53, Sean Kelly <s...@invisibleduck.org> wrote: > I recall Walter rejecting the idea because compilers shouldn't optimize > across asm blocks. This should probably be revisited at some point. > > It's proven then, inline asm blocks break the optimiser... they are > officially useless. This is why all C coders use intrinsics these days, and D > should too.
For the record, some compilers do optimize across asm blocks. It's simply DMD/DMC that doesn't. Though the lack of "volatile" makes doing this unsafe in D as a general rule.
