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Comment by gingerBill

D's approach is great, but it has a few limitations for my use case in Odin. It only supports x86_64/amd64 and uses Intel-style syntax, whereas I needed a solution that universalizes its syntax across multiple ISAs.

D's inline asm is also statement-based rather than a callable template. Though the mixin trick fixes this, it does mean it still uses %0-style parameters making it hard to read and write, something I want to remove completely.

It is great to see that we arrived at similar design compromises, especially regarding `lock` being treated as a separate instruction and thus separated with a `;` (which is automatically inserted by the Odin compiler).

parent gingerBill 2 months ago

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