<p dir="ltr">On 26 Dec 2014 07:25, "Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d" <<a href="mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com">digitalmars-d@puremagic.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 08:25:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote:<br>
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>> I found a little interesting difference between ldc, dmd and gdc today.<br>
>> Summarized in ldc it does not allow you to have multiple extern c'd function prototypes with different parameters but same mangling aka name.<br>
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>> In dmd and gdc it compiles fine. I believe this is actually wrong.<br>
>> As c abi does not support overloading of functions, shouldn't the compilers at the very least report a warning of this?<br>
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>> [0] <a href="https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/issues/6#issuecomment-66959937">https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/issues/6#issuecomment-66959937</a><br>
>> [1] <a href="https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/blob/160f5109cb9f09ab69f9a16c685c5a6b39179db6/source/x11/Xlib.d#L1534">https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/blob/160f5109cb9f09ab69f9a16c685c5a6b39179db6/source/x11/Xlib.d#L1534</a><br>
>> [2] <a href="https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/blob/160f5109cb9f09ab69f9a16c685c5a6b39179db6/source/x11/Xlib.d#L1554">https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/blob/160f5109cb9f09ab69f9a16c685c5a6b39179db6/source/x11/Xlib.d#L1554</a><br>
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> Could really use an answer to this.<br>
> Another person discovered this in the wild.<br>
> <a href="http://forum.dlang.org/post/gpfxidqvrseuhxpnckzu@forum.dlang.org">http://forum.dlang.org/post/gpfxidqvrseuhxpnckzu@forum.dlang.org</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">I would raise a bug if there isn't already one. The frontend should at least disallow conflicting extern(C) prototypes.</p>