On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 20:40:59 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
On Wednesday, 5 June 2013 at 18:54:45 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
Not going to look into the file, but I'm pretty sure
bsd_signal is function for an external C library right?
If that is the case, it must use C calling convention, so yes
this is correct.
Ah sorry i wasn't clear.
The question i have is, why do i need to decorate the function
(with extern(C)) that i pass to bsd_signal.
The only reason i can see is that the type hint is decorated
but surely it doesn't need to be.
You are passing a function pointer to a C library, where it will
be expected that the function uses the C calling convention. So
you have to declare the function as extern(C), otherwise DMD will
not compile it as such. That can cause segfaults.
