Why are extern(C/C++) definitions and references mangled differently in separately compiled modules?

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2019-09-06 21:03, Max Samukha wrote:

> Is there any practical use of having identically named .d and .di 
> alongside?

Same as in C/C++. This allows you to have a header file if you want to 
distribute a closed source library.

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/Jacob Carlborg