Then again, I am not tied to any particular organisation, so I have no influence from external bodies during the decision making of when I'm adding, keeping, or removing any compiler features in the GDC flavour of D.  I know that probably sounds rather blunt or ignorant, but what I do do is only ever done on the basis that that was the right thing to do and did with the best intentions that I had had at the time of doing them.  (Awkward sentence meant for opticron so I can watch him trip and fall over it :).


An example of a litmus test I've done in the past is something like this:

1) Ask people what would they think if I pull feature X from GDC (eg, D's .html source support).
2) Listen to the responses, some would agree, but most argue against the whole idea for legacy reasons.
3) Wait maybe a fortnight whilst I take in all considerations and just do it anyway.
4) Wait 6-12 months for anyone to notice.
5) No one noticed, thus concluding that:
 a) No one really has any use for it despite what they argue, or
 b) No one infact uses GDC (go figure!).
6) Send a pull request to DMD which gets put through into the next release.


Similarly, no one has noticed that most of the pragma GDC supported have mysterious vanished either.  The ones left at kept only for gcc.builtins support until a time I re-implement the attributes in a better way that I haven't decided on yet (hence why raising this thread).


Regards,
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Iain Buclaw

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