https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17750
Issue ID: 17750
Summary: DMD should consider namespaces when validating
declaration names
Product: D
Version: D2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P1
Component: dmd
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
In writing bindings for libtorch, a C++ machine learning framework, I ran in to
a seemingly artificial limitation.
I need to define external linkage for members of a class named Torch::Object.
Unfortunately, the compiler will not let you declare a class named `Object`
even if it is defined such that it would not collide with D's own Object the
only "clean" way to do this (and only for non-virtual functions) is by manually
specifying symbol names for each method with `pragma(mangle, ...)`.
If fixing this by changing the validation logic actually presents issues,
perhaps adding a pragma, like mangle, that tells the compiler what class name
to use when generating C++ symbols would be a good solution.
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