[Request for ABI Breakage]: Ambiguity between extern(Pascal) vs. Template Value Parameters.

[Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d]

On 16 May 2015 at 16:34, Daniel Murphy via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
> "Iain Buclaw"  wrote in message news:uzmzjndohsiaewkjmchu at forum.dlang.org...
>
>> Once use of extern(Pascal) should be exceedingly rare (I don't think I
>> ever followed ABI convention in GDC) I'd either request that extern(Pascal)
>> be removed completely, or have it's mangled symbol be renamed to something
>> other than a 'V' that does not clash with other types/identifiers.
>
>
> Why do we even have extern(Pascal) ?

No idea.  D has never supported 16-bit systems.  Walter?