https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18716

--- Comment #1 from Jacob Carlborg <doob@me.com> ---
Pull request: https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8120.

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--- Comment #2 from Dlang Bot <dlang-bot@dlang.rocks> ---
@jacob-carlborg updated dlang/dmd pull request #8120 "Fix issue 18716: type `const(char)[]` can not be mapped to C++" fixing this issue:

- Fix issue 18716: type `const(char)[]` can not be mapped to C++

  D arrays don't have any corresponding type in C++. Instead we mangle
  it as a templated struct with the name `__dslice`, i.e.
  `struct __dslice(T)`, where `T` is the element type of the array. For
  an array of ints it would be mangled as the following type:
  `__dslice!int`.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8120

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw@gdcproject.org> changed:

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Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> ---
Note that:

extern (C) void foo(const(char)[]) {}

and `dmd -HC` generates:

template<typename T>
struct _d_dynamicArray final
{
    size_t length;
    T *ptr;
    ...
};
...
extern "C" void foo(_d_dynamicArray< const char > __param_0_);


So hopefully this could happen for extern(C++) too.

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Nick Treleaven <nick@geany.org> changed:

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            Summary|[ICE] type const(char)[]    |type const(char)[] can not
                   |can not be mapped to C++    |be mapped to C++

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