[SAoC] 'DPP with Linux kernel headers' Project Thread

[Cristian Becerescu]

On Saturday, 2 November 2019 at 17:02:45 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
wrote:
> On 2019-11-01 21:39, Cristian Becerescu wrote:
>
>> Sorry for taking so long to reply.
>> 
>> I've written a simple example where dpp fails to generate 
>> valid D code for the problem I mention earlier. The example is 
>> in this gist (for syntax highlighting): 
>> https://gist.github.com/cbecerescu/9a114bb92b23bd8e275a8eae08c6cc2f
>
> Wow, that's complicated.

When encountering anonymous structs or unions, dpp gives them a 
name. And this forces dpp to declare a member of that 
'now-named-anon' record type and also provide accessors for the 
'now-named-anon' record (because unnamed records also implicitly 
declare a member of their type).