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From: Taylor Holberton <taylorcholberton@gmail.com>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Feature Request for C
Date: Sat, 06 May 2017 17:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEj6FjabOZFtFD7vrzFiNGKB+Wn+DjXZjDXGwibxBS_oyXNPPw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hello!

I would like to know if adding namespaces for the C language (as a gnu
extension) could be added in GCC.
Except instead of using c++ style mangling, it would simply just
prepend the name of the namespace to the symbols in the file.
For example:

_Namespace ncurses_
{

int savetty(void);

}

Would be exported as ncurses_savetty, and could be called outside of
the namespace as:

ncurses_savetty();

This would ease the maintenance of a lot of existing C projects that
use this kind of naming convention.

-- 
Taylor Holberton
Petaluma, CA

             reply	other threads:[~2017-05-06 17:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-06 17:09 Taylor Holberton [this message]
2017-05-08 11:00 ` Florian Weimer via gcc

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