cpp_binder, a not-yet-useful tool for generating C++ bindings

[Paul O'Neil via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On 09/21/2015 12:01 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Monday, 21 September 2015 at 09:45:01 UTC, ZombineDev wrote:
>> I guess that the only thing that doesn't map directly to D is &&. The
>> others look on the D side like this:
>> C++      -> D
>> T*       -> T*
>> T&       -> ref T
>> const T* -> const T*
>> const T& -> const ref T
> 
> I don't think D const and C++ const share semantics. In C++ you can
> write to things pointed to by T even if T is const. You also have no
> guarantee that a "const T" isn't mutated by another thread, I believe.
> 
> A C++ pointer is what D would call a shared pointer, whereas C++ does
> not have the concept of thread local pointers.
> 
> etc.
> 

While D and C++ const don't quite share semantics, they're petty close
and they mangle the same way.  I do what ZombieDev has in the table.

I completely bail on && and intentionally don't bind those things.

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Paul O'Neil
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