[DDMD] Reasoning behind converting new Type -> Type::create

[Johannes Pfau]

Am Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:00:50 +0000
schrieb Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw at gdcproject.org>:

> > Somehow sounds like you want to hook into the g++ frontend to do the
> > mangling?
> 
> Nah... Keep the same implementation. I was thinking more along the
> lines of using bells and whistles that are GDC specific.  For example:
> targetm.mangle_type - which is needed if we want compatible C++
> mangling on ARM for va_list or vector types.
> 
> As for g++ frontend mangle.c, we would require having some form of
> -fabi-version=n switch; which is a bit exper.  And besides I don't
> feel like satisfying the need of some lone guy out there who requires
> C++ mangling ABI greater than v.3 from D.
> 
> Regards
> Iain

That sounds reasonable. I had a quick look on how difficult it is to
hook into another frontend in GCC some time ago and IIRC it's almost
impossible so I was kinda surprised.