Should GDC remove internal dependency on stdarg?

[Iain Buclaw]

On 16 March 2012 11:33, Artur Skawina <art.08.09 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/12/12 16:35, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> I'm picking up some old issues from bugzilla, this one is worth
>> having a community review.
>>
>> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1949
>>
>>
>> Should hidden GCC features be imported from a magic module
>> provided by gcc.* packages - or should the implementation be
>> re-written using pragmas instead?
>
> Well, what's the definition of "hidden" here? The access to "std" stuff
> (varargs, intrinsics etc) might be done via pragmas in magic GCC modules,
> but many user-accessible things need to be exposed via pragmas anyway.
> And they need to be accessible from D - eg: how do you set GCCs align
> attribute from D?... [1]
>

By using align(). :-)

> artur
>
> [1] via pragmas; D's "align" does not count.

:-(

pragma(attribute) or pragma(set_attribute) are the second door in. You
need to lookup GCC's documentation on Declaration and Type attributes
for the exact names.



-- 
Iain Buclaw

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