Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Portable "asm" (Was: The D Programming Language)
Message-ID: <1988Mar3.180424.403@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: portable D
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11702@brl-adm.ARPA> <243@eagle_snax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 88 18:04:24 GMT

> ... It is just as easy, since C requires a ; to end a statement, to
> tell the compiler that until it sees ); to continue processing for the
> assembler, and to have some escape mechanism for inserting ); into the 
> assembler statement...

Have you never heard of string escapes?  (If they don't work in asm()s
despite the resemblance to strings, speak to your compiler implementor
about this bug.)  Why re-invent the wheel?

Actually, my number one suggestion for D would be to avoid asm() entirely.
My C compiler doesn't support it; oddly enough, I have never missed it.
(It helps that Dennis Ritchie knew how to generate good local code.)
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