ImportC and nothrow/@nogc?

[Tim]

On Sunday, 18 August 2024 at 04:43:34 UTC, Manu wrote:
> I just tried using ImportC for the first time ever, but I was 
> surprised
> when I immediately received a sea of errors calling the C 
> symbols from
> `nothrow @nogc` functions.
> My entire program is `nothrow @nogc`... I assumed ImportC would 
> be
> supremely suitable in this context, but apparently not...
>
> Is there something I've missed? Is there a plan for this?
> I found just one single very short forum thread...
>
> This is classic D experience; so much work has been done on 
> this, and then the moment I try and use something I encounter a 
> showstopping oversight >_<

Here is a pull request for a new ImportC pragma, which allows to 
set `nothrow`, `@nogc` and `pure`:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/16820