On 26 Dec 2014 09:45, "Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d" < digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote: > > On 26/12/2014 10:30 p.m., Iain Buclaw via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> >> On 26 Dec 2014 07:25, "Rikki Cattermole via Digitalmars-d" >> <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com <mailto:digitalmars-d@puremagic.com>> wrote: >> > >> > On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 08:25:16 UTC, Rikki Cattermole wrote: >> >> >> >> I found a little interesting difference between ldc, dmd and gdc today. >> >> Summarized in ldc it does not allow you to have multiple extern c'd >> function prototypes with different parameters but same mangling aka name. >> >> >> >> In dmd and gdc it compiles fine. I believe this is actually wrong. >> >> As c abi does not support overloading of functions, shouldn't the >> compilers at the very least report a warning of this? >> >> >> >> [0] https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/issues/6#issuecomment-66959937 >> >> [1] >> https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/blob/160f5109cb9f09ab69f9a16c685c5a6b39179db6/source/x11/Xlib.d#L1534 >> >> [2] >> https://github.com/nomad-software/x11/blob/160f5109cb9f09ab69f9a16c685c5a6b39179db6/source/x11/Xlib.d#L1554 >> > >> > >> > Could really use an answer to this. >> > Another person discovered this in the wild. >> > http://forum.dlang.org/post/gpfxidqvrseuhxpnc...@forum.dlang.org >> >> I would raise a bug if there isn't already one. The frontend should at >> least disallow conflicting extern(C) prototypes. > > > This is the answer I was looking for thank you. Just needed somebody to confirm. >
You don't need confirmation to raise a bug. Just do it. There's no wrongs or rights here. Iain.
