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reply Timothee Cour via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d puremagic.com> writes:
How do I define pragma(mangle,"name") for a type?

Use case:
I'd like to avoid the complications involved in
https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1316/files [Addition of C++

by directly defining the desired mangle for a c++ std::string (+ other
similar use cases):

```

pragma(mangle, "NSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE")
struct string_cpp;

extern(C++, ns){
  void fun1(string_cpp*a);
  string_cpp fun2();
  void string_cpp fun3(const ref string_cpp a);
}

```


The problem is that this mangles fun1 as _ZN2ns4fun1EP10string_cpp , ie,
using "string_cpp" instead of
"NSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE" for the `a` argument
of fun1, thus ignoring (silently!) the pragma(mangle).
Feb 14 2017
next sibling parent kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:
Side note: Microsoft uses a different C++ mangling...
Feb 14 2017
prev sibling parent Nicholas Wilson <iamthewilsonator hotmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 at 11:15:26 UTC, Timothee Cour wrote:
 How do I define pragma(mangle,"name") for a type?

 Use case:
 I'd like to avoid the complications involved in
 https://github.com/dlang/druntime/pull/1316/files [Addition of 
 C++

 by directly defining the desired mangle for a c++ std::string 
 (+ other
 similar use cases):

 ```

 pragma(mangle, 
 "NSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE")
 struct string_cpp;

 extern(C++, ns){
   void fun1(string_cpp*a);
   string_cpp fun2();
   void string_cpp fun3(const ref string_cpp a);
 }

 ```


 The problem is that this mangles fun1 as 
 _ZN2ns4fun1EP10string_cpp , ie, using "string_cpp" instead of 
 "NSt7__cxx1112basic_stringIcSt11char_traitsIcESaIcEEE" for the 
 `a` argument of fun1, thus ignoring (silently!) the 
 pragma(mangle).
I've got a use case similar to this: declaring and using named opaque types in LLVM IR to support images for DCompute OpenCL support. If I could leverage pragma mangle instead that would be awesome!
Feb 14 2017