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

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On Saturday, 16 May 2015 at 19:11:26 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 May 2015 at 15:46:20 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
>> 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?
>
> This is blocking me with improving demangling support in 
> gdb/binutils.
>
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14591
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/pull/4658
>
> I may just drop support for recognising extern(Pascal) 
> functions completely on my side.

Sorry for the noise, but since you're here
C++filt in binutils lists dlang support in the help but it 
doesn't actually work. Do I report this on binutils issue 
tracker, or gdc's?