[GSoC] Header Generation for C/C++

[Eduard Staniloiu]

On Monday, 29 July 2019 at 01:19:36 UTC, Manu wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 5:20 PM Gregor Mückl via Digitalmars-d 
> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Monday, 22 July 2019 at 18:12:01 UTC, Manu wrote:
>> > [...]
>>
>> That's a pretty neat hack!
>>
>> I'm just worried about two things:
>> - it makes the generated code harder to read (not that big of a
>> deal)
>
> Barely... and a generated header is not really for human 
> consumption either way.
>
>> - if you happen to include headers with conflicting D_ENUM* 
>> defines (e.g. a potential 3rd party D wrapper), you might get 
>> some nasty surprises :/
>
> C/C++ programmers now how to do macros and what to expect.

So should we go ahead with generating code based on the 
`-extern-std` value or by using defines?

After sleeping a bit on this, I prefer `-extern-std`.