C structs

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On Friday, 20 June 2014 at 12:17:22 UTC, Johann Lermer wrote:
> Agreed, but I assumed, that since all definitions in cairo.d 
> are defined as
> extern (System), (same happens with extern (C), btw.), I would 
> have expected,
> that D does not implicitly generate initialisation functions.

D requires that all variable are default-initialized, extern or 
not -> T.init is necessary.

> So, why is there no init routine for the rectangle? There's 
> only one for the matrix.

That needs actually building deimos cairo and checking symbols in 
object files so I will do as soon as have a bit more spare time ;)