On 02/08/2018 8:59 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
If this problem were to be solved, it should be solved, not hacked for
one case only. There are many ways of dealing with it:
1. pragma(mangle)
2. change the names in the C/C++ side
3. use a macro -Dwith=with_ when compiling the C/C++ code
4. write wrappers/forwarders/trampolines in C/C++, compile them and link
them in
5. write a tool that patches the object file (not as hard as it sounds,
the symbol table is usually in one spot, but of course the patcher would
have to be implemented for each object file format). I've written object
file patchers before, they work surprisingly well. Nobody else does it,
presumably because the thought inspires terror :-)
6. provide some switch to the D compiler to rename A=>B in the object
file symbols, though I'd worry such would slow the compiler down
7. perhaps amend the language such that an identifier of the form
"__keyword" would appear in the object file as "keyword".
8. if any identifier starts with a keyword and ends with at minimum one
_, one _ from the end of the identifier will be removed for mangling
(but not e.g. lookup).
