Custom calling conventions

[Iain Buclaw]

On 21 February 2012 11:03, Manu <turkeyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> So I was thinking about this extern(language) thing, the obvious ones are
> supported, but it would be really nice to be able to implement custom
> conventions for other languages/scripting languages.
>
> For instance, I'm thinking about Android, I have JNI binding code
> everywhere, it's really ugly.
> I'd love to be able to declare:
>   extern(Java) int someJavaFunc(int x, float y)
>
> And then use my function like any regular function, with the 'extern(Java)'
> bit handling the JNI business behind the scenes.
> I also regularly interact with javascript, lua, C#/mono, and these could all
> be implemented the same way.
>
> I'm imaging some mechanism to declare a calling convention (which would be
> resolved within the extern(...) statement), and define it with a template,
> something like:
>

Or you could just define extern(Java).

SDC made a start at this, gdc could implement this using the same as
g++'s extern "Java" interface to gcj (we would only be JNI compatible
with gcj though).



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Iain Buclaw

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