pragma(mangle)

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Robert Clipsham" <robert at octarineparrot.com> wrote in message 
news:it0rec$mii$1 at digitalmars.com...
> On 11/06/2011 23:15, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
>> On 6/11/11, Daniel Murphy<yebblies at nospamgmail.com>  wrote:
>>> You could use it, for example, to provide a function with C++ linkage 
>>> taking
>>> a C++ long parameter, something which I think is currently impossible in 
>>> D.
>>
>> I assumed I must have been doing something wrong when I filed this:
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6121 . But I guess not.
>> I can't link DDMD with the DMD 2.053 backend because of this. I'd have
>> to change DMD's long types to int, which might not be a big issue but
>> I'd rather avoid having to patch every release..
>
> When I was working on ddmd this was worked around with a wrapper C file 
> that wrapped the functions with long parameters in functions D accepted. 
> Is that file no longer there?
>

Yea, it's still there: "bridge/bridge.cpp"

I had wondered what exactly that was for. In retrospect, it probably would 
have been obvious if I had ever actually paid any attention to anything 
inside that file ;)