Exporting template function instances to C

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On Thursday, 23 March 2017 at 17:58:21 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 05:29:22PM +0000, data pulverizer via
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>> Thanks. Is there a less ham-handed way of exporting them other 
>> than wrapping them in functions as I have?
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> Wrapping them in functions is probably the simplest way to call 
> them from C.  You *could*, I suppose, use their mangled names 
> directly, then you wouldn't need a wrapper, but that would be 
> rather difficult to use on the C end.  On the D side, there's 
> .mangleof that will tell you what mangled names to use, but if 
> you're calling from C you don't have that luxury.
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Thanks. Mangling sounds painful and scary, I think I'll stick to 
wrapping which sounds much less dangerous.