Re: overloaded extern(C) called without error

[Dicebot]

On Tuesday, 10 September 2013 at 14:07:18 UTC, Luís Marques wrote:
I just realized I wasn't clear -- it calls the (wrong) 
overloaded function:

    extern(C) void foo(int);
    extern(C) void foo() { writeln("yes, this is called"); }

    void main()
    {
        foo(42);
    }

outputs:

    yes, this is called

This is why mixing ABI and mangling in one entity is bad. And why 
overloading extern(C) functions is compile-time error in C++.