GDC review process.

[Walter Bright]

On 6/19/2012 3:47 PM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 19-06-2012 23:52, Walter Bright wrote:
>> GDC can certainly define its D calling convention to match GCC's. It's
>> an "implementation defined" thing, not a language defined one.
> Then let's please rename it to the DMD ABI instead of calling it the D ABI
> and
> making it look like it's part of the language on the website.

The ABI is not part of the language. For example, the C Standard says nothing 
whatsoever about the C ABI.

> Further, D mangling rules should be separate from calling convention.

I disagree. The mangling rules are not part of the language specification, 
either. But they are necessary so that a function with one convention won't be 
connected to one with another.