On Wednesday, 10 September 2014 at 20:41:45 UTC, Walter Bright
wrote:
C++'s long and unsigned long can be accessed with c_long and
c_ulong. Unfortunately, these are aliases and mangle to their
underlying types.
Meaning that there is no way to interface to a C++ function
declared as:
void foo(unsigned long);
So, what to do about this?
1. elevate c_long and c_ulong into full fledged types.
2. create full fledged types __c_long and __c_ulong, and alias
c_long and c_ulong to them.
3. some sort of attribute?
The same issue exists for C++'s 'long double'.
How would these choices affect/handle the dynamic nature of the
current aliases? e.g. c_long on Windows is an int bu on Posix
systems it can be int or long depending on the CPU architecture.
