Should an 'extern(C++, "ns"):' override previous ones in the same scope?
Max Samukha
maxsamukha at gmail.com
Sun Sep 8 10:08:55 UTC 2019
On Sunday, 8 September 2019 at 09:35:03 UTC, Jonathan M Davis
wrote:
> The C++ support has been improved kind of piecemeal over time,
> and initially, none of it was documented. So, it wasn't exactly
> fully planned out when it was added. IIRC, it was added
> originally so that the dmd frontend could be moved to D. The
> DIP process was very different at that point, and it was much
> more common then for Walter or one of the other core developers
> to just propose a feature in a PR and get it merged. I expect
> that the oddities in the implementation stem from stuff that
> whoever implemented it didn't think to try. The whole process
> is much more rigorous now than it used to be.
>
> - Jonathan M Davis
Good to know, thank you.
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