extern and opaque structs

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2012-05-03 07:00, James Miller wrote:
> I'm doing C bindings and I have an opaque struct and an extern'd
> variable of the type of that struct. The problem is that dmd is
> complaining that the struct has no definition (which is true). Making it
> a pointer works (expected) but i can't do that because the interface is
> expecting an full struct.
>
> Adding __gshared doesn't help.
>
> I assume this is bug, since usage of extern means that I don't need to
> know the size, since it will be allocated in the C code, not the D code.
>
> --
> James Miller

This doesn't work:

struct Foo;
extern (C) extern Foo foo;

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg