extern (System)

should work now.

http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.020.zip

"Walter Bright" <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:f83il1$1b57$1@digitalmars.com...
>   extern (System)
>
> should work now.
>
> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.020.zip

What is the practical use of extern (System)?

Stewart. 

Stewart Gordon wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound1@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:f83il1$1b57$1@digitalmars.com...
>>   extern (System)
>>
>> should work now.
>>
>> http://www.digitalmars.com/d/1.0/changelog.html
>> http://ftp.digitalmars.com/dmd.1.020.zip
> 
> What is the practical use of extern (System)?

Some libraries have the same interface (functions) on different operating systems, but with a different calling convention. (Typically extern(Windows) on Windows and extern(C) elsewhere)
This used to be handled by putting
---
version(Windows) {
    extern(Windows):
} else {
    extern(C):
}
---
at the top of the interface module but apparently the fact that that worked was due to a bug, and it was fixed...

Frits van Bommel wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>>
>> What is the practical use of extern (System)?
> 
> Some libraries have the same interface (functions) on different operating systems, but with a different calling convention.

The ODBC API is one such.


Sean