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Also under C++11, the availability of lambdas probably completely changes how you'd design this sort of thing.

When the original article was written (and I remember reading it many, many moons ago) variadic templates were not yet available. And this project seems to have been last updated 4 years ago, so a lot of boilerplate templates is understandable.

Given that the comments talk about compatibility issues with DOS and some DSPs I believe it is not the direction pbhogan wants to take.

As long as you can use a recent compiler there shouldn't be problems. The resulting assembler code should be the same.

A C++11 compiler for DOS?

http://www.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/mini-faq.txt

gcc 5.3 (& co) for DOS!

For DSPs, there's typically only a single, proprietary compiler available, and supporting the latest C++ standards isn't high priority for the companies making them.