On Friday, 7 March 2014 at 14:04:53 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
We don't need C ABI compatibility for stuff that is not
extern(C), do we?
That's a good point, though personally I'd still like some way to
magic it up, even in extern(C).
Consider the example of library typedef. If C did:
typedef void* HANDLE;
and D did
struct HANDLE { void* foo; alias foo this; }
it is almost the same, but then when you declare
HANDLE OpenFile(...);
it won't work since the compiler will pass a hidden struct
pointer (which is exactly what C woudl expect if it was a typedef
struct { void* } on its side too) instead of expecting the value
in the accumulator as it would with the void*.
