C++/C mangleof inconsistency for OS X

[Michel Fortin via Digitalmars-d]

On 2015-04-22 16:32:55 +0000, Dan Olson <zans.is.for.cans at yahoo.com> said:

> Since the compile chain knows whether the target system prepends an
> underscore, I wonder if it can be bubbled up into some compiler trait or
> version that prevents writing versioned code based on system.  I think
> it would help gdc much as it has many targets, and many prepend
> underscore to symbols.  It would help with unittests like
> compilable/cppmangle.d that would have to be tailored for every OS.
> that uses gcc3 style C++ mangling.

And you think it's safe to assume all symbols on OS X will always have 
an underscore as a prefix just because symbols for C and C++ stuff do? 
(Hint: some Objective-C symbols don't start with "_".)

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