Thank you for the comprehensive responses
On 09/07/2024 8:43 PM, Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole wrote:
Atomics are provided by the compiler in the form of intrinsics.
If you do not do this, they cannot be inlined as you're forced
to use inline assembly.
LDC and GDC like GCC and clang have an intrinsic based
implementation for ``core.atomics``. DMD is the only D compiler
that uses inline assembly currently.
It is all templated so yes it is accessible within a -betterC
codebase.
That is good to know. I should expect this kind of feature to be
present, after all betterC must be a working subset of D. But, I
wasn't sure enough.
Based on the responses I'm assuming my example of atomic is a
special case, but I shouldn't worry about low level things like
threads to be absent all the same.
That's betterC targeting native. What about WASM? Does LDC ->
WASM pipeline supports functionality one needs in a C-level
language? If not, aside from atomics, one should be able to use C
libraries to supplant any other purpose, right? Since C has
mature support for WASM.
