DMD 1.022 and 2.005 releases

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Mon Oct 8 02:30:58 PDT 2007


Aarti_pl wrote:
> I just wonder if it wouldn't be better to allow external plugins for 
> DMD. This way you could just create different plugins to allow different 
> name mangling and different interpretation of data in extern() sections...
> 
> We could have then different plugins written by external vendors eg:
> CPP_GCC
> CPP_MSVC
> Pascal
> etc.
> 
> Walter, did you think about solution like this?

No.

> Is there possibility to implement this?

I think the number of different calling conventions in use is pretty 
limited, so the benefit may not be there.



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