https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24412

--- Comment #11 from Walter Bright <bugzilla@digitalmars.com> ---
https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/3790

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https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24412

--- Comment #12 from Manu <turkeyman@gmail.com> ---
This issue is strictly about the arch, and pointer width/ABI matters is explicitly NOT what this request is about.

The thing Iain shows:
```
import gcc.builtins : ___builtin_machine_int;
static if (__builtin_machine_int.sizeof == 8):
```

This is what should be expressed by a standard version token present for all compilers/architectures.


On the tangent regarding X32; it is deprecated for linux, but cross compilers
will need to express this concept for all time.
For my money, D_X32 should continue to exist, and the spec adjusted to require
this constant for all targets where 32bit pointers are used on a 64bit arch,
which would include the X32 ABI for X86, but also similar ABI's for other
architectures too.
It's not strictly necessary, because we can test size_t.sizeof, but since it's
already there and removing it would be a breaking change, the spec could be
slightly adjusted to make it generally useful.

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