C++ interop - what to do about long and unsigned long?

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 10 September 2014 21:40, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> C++'s long and unsigned long can be accessed with c_long and c_ulong.
> Unfortunately, these are aliases and mangle to their underlying types.
>

This problem is not lost on me (and hopefully Daniel).

>
> 2. create full fledged types __c_long and __c_ulong, and alias c_long and
> c_ulong to them.
>

This is not unreasonable.  And would allow dmd to fix their whole C++
long/ulong mangling mess.

>
> The same issue exists for C++'s 'long double'.

I don't think so, as there is 'real' for that.

Iain.