Can we kill the D calling convention already?

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

Writing portable code is hard enough as it is. Why do we have to have 
some random, D-specialized calling convention (only on Win32 and only in 
DMD)? The result of the current state of things is that extern(D) is 
essentially useless - it has completely different meanings across 
compilers. You cannot rely on it at all. If memory serves me right, both 
LDC and GDC just alias it to extern(C), but DMD insists on using this 
magical D calling convention on Win32.

I'm not attacking the D ABI (name mangling) here, but I do think this 
calling convention needs to either go away, or be optional (i.e. as some 
extern() argument). We *have* to make extern(D) consistent across 
compilers, or we'll be no better than the mess that is C and C++; we're 
advertising a standard inline assembler with support for naked 
functions, but that support is useless if we don't have a consistent 
default calling convention.

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- Alex