So we talked about this at DConf. Working on std.simd, I need to be able to change the target parameter on a per-function basis. GCC supports this via: __attribute__((target("sse2"))) for instance.
I need the ability to set this from D, but the trick is, I need to be able to set the target string according to a template arg. Eg: enum Targets { SSE2, SSE3 }; enum targets[] = [ "sse2", "sse3" ]; @attribute("target", targets[T]) // <- attribute needs to refer to the template arg T void func(Targets T)(); { // this way, it is possibly to produce dynamic selection of code paths optimised for different CPU features (a task which is usually very tedious in C/C++) func!(Targets.SSE2)(); }