* Feature Request for C
@ 2017-05-06 17:09 Taylor Holberton
2017-05-08 11:00 ` Florian Weimer via gcc
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From: Taylor Holberton @ 2017-05-06 17:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: gcc
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
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* Re: Feature Request for C
2017-05-06 17:09 Feature Request for C Taylor Holberton
@ 2017-05-08 11:00 ` Florian Weimer via gcc
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From: Florian Weimer via gcc @ 2017-05-08 11:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Taylor Holberton, gcc
On 05/06/2017 07:09 PM, Taylor Holberton wrote:
> Except instead of using c++ style mangling, it would simply just
> prepend the name of the namespace to the symbols in the file.
Would this also apply to type names and struct tags? How does it
interfere with the name resolution in the body of inline functions?
Personally, I don't think we need to duplicate more things from C++ into
C as GNU extensions. If you want C++ features, just use a C++ subset.
Florian
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