plans for interfacing to C++

[Trass3r]

On Monday, 9 January 2012 at 18:04:58 UTC, Michel Fortin wrote:
>> Hmm another difficulty is how to switch between mangling 
>> schemes.
>
> One thing that could be done is instead of the namespace 
> argument, have a mangled name argument. Then use CTFE to build 
> the mangled name (if you want to).
>
> This would also solve the problem we have on OS X where some C 
> functions use a mangled name with a '$' in them thanks to the 
> use of some GCC attribute in the system headers.
>
> Or maybe it should be a pragma instead.

Interesting idea. But how to do it properly?
A namespace or a class may have lots of functions and I really 
wouldn't want to be forced to write pragma(mangledName, 
gccmangle("Bla", ...)) before every declaration.