C compatibility module for phobos.

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 21-09-2011 10:01, Gor Gyolchanyan wrote:
> Hello, my dear, beloved D community.
>
> I've been reading literally all discussions on D.puremagic.com
> <http://D.puremagic.com> for about a month now and I'm deeply concerned
> with my favorite language and it's reference compiler.
>
> So, for starters, i decided to add a very useful (in my opinion) module
> to phobos: etc.c.compat.
>
> Here's the pull request:
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/pull/265
>
> This module is supposed to help people develop bindings for C libraries,
> by providing information language-specific information, depending on
> certain compiler, processor architecture, operating system, etc.
>
> Currently there are only aliases for C built-in types, which are static
> if-ed to have the correct size for the respective C compilers.
>
> It's well-documented and waits to be enhanced with more accurate
> compile-time branching and additional useful information to make binding
> C code even easier.
>
> If we get a good enough C compatibility module, we'll be able to rapidly
> bind all major and frequently-used libraries and include them in phobos.
>
> This will also do a great job of promoting D as a good language to adopt
> for serious projects, because it's standard library will be very rich
> and common usage won't require the programmer to resort to anything
> besides phobos.
>
> Any comments would be much appreciated.

Hi,

You should probably fix the enum member names to use camelCase (though 
in the case of 'x86_64', I think the underscore is acceptable).

- Alex