Should GDC remove internal dependency on stdarg?

[Artur Skawina]

On 03/16/12 13:30, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On 16 March 2012 11:33, Artur Skawina <art.08.09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 03/12/12 16:35, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>>> I'm picking up some old issues from bugzilla, this one is worth
>>> having a community review.
>>>
>>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1949
>>>
>>>
>>> Should hidden GCC features be imported from a magic module
>>> provided by gcc.* packages - or should the implementation be
>>> re-written using pragmas instead?
>>
>> Well, what's the definition of "hidden" here? The access to "std" stuff
>> (varargs, intrinsics etc) might be done via pragmas in magic GCC modules,
>> but many user-accessible things need to be exposed via pragmas anyway.
>> And they need to be accessible from D - eg: how do you set GCCs align
>> attribute from D?... [1]
>>
> 
> By using align(). :-)
> 
>> artur
>>
>> [1] via pragmas; D's "align" does not count.
> 
> :-(
> 
> pragma(attribute) or pragma(set_attribute) are the second door in. You
> need to lookup GCC's documentation on Declaration and Type attributes
> for the exact names.

The problem is the "align", which happens to be a D keyword...

I was concerned about other such issues with pragmas.

artur