Portable "asm" (Was: The D Programming Language)

[Henry Spencer]

> If we have the compiler replace names by locations (register and/or memory)
> of the variables used...

This does of course assume that all locations are addressable in all
instructions, which is emphatically not the case on many machines.

> We also should get rid of those quotes in the process...

What if I want to write asm("mov ')', r0")?  The quotes are a reasonable way
of keeping the syntax of the assembler entirely out of the compiler's own
syntax handling, which is a good thing, especially for portable compilers.
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