C++ interop - what to do about long and unsigned long?

[Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d]

"Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d"  wrote in message 
news:mailman.726.1410416827.5783.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...

> This problem is not lost on me (and hopefully Daniel).

*sigh*

> > 2. create full fledged types __c_long and __c_ulong, and alias c_long 
> > and
> > c_ulong to them.
> >
>
> This is not unreasonable.  And would allow dmd to fix their whole C++
> long/ulong mangling mess.

Yeah this seems like the only reasonable one.  Although I think they should 
only be allowed as parameters in extern(C++) functions, where they set up 
the custom mangling and then decay to int/uint/long/ulong as appropriate.

> >
> > The same issue exists for C++'s 'long double'.
>
> I don't think so, as there is 'real' for that.

real doesn't always match long double in dmd.