A new debugger for Linux - would it work for D?

[Bruno Medeiros]

Don Clugston wrote:
> 
> - Items that use D mangling but don't have D linkage. I suggest changing 
> those cases to use "0" then the linkage type ('W' for Windows, 'U', for 
> C, etc, same as for delegate/function pointers), then the length.
> So instead of
> main3abci
> 
> it would be
> 0U4main3abci
> 
> for
> 
> void main()
> {
>   int abc;
> }
> 
> 
> making it distinguishable from
> extern(Windows)
> {
>   int main3abci;
> }
> 

Can we define functions that do not have D linkage, but have D name 
mangling? If so, does that even make sense? It was my understanding that 
any function with linkage other than D is used for obj/lib/dll level 
compatibility with other programs written in other languages (i.e., ABI 
level compatibility). As such, these other languages don't understand D 
name mangling but only C name mangling, so what's a non-D-linkage with 
D-name-mangling for?

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Bruno Medeiros - MSc in CS/E student
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