Bug 14933 – specifications for the pragma(mangle) are vague

The specifications for the way dmd implements pragma(mangle) are too vague. The documentation should specify to which type its symbol is effectively transformed or not: http://dlang.org/pragma.html#mangle see discussion on dlang.lean: http://forum.dlang.org/thread/[email protected]

will do, located where restrictions are in dmd: - attrib.c - static unsigned setMangleOverride(Dsymbol *s, char *sym) - else if (s->isFuncDeclaration() || s->isVarDeclaration()){..} https://github.com/9rnsr/dmd/blob/6f3ea9d8809e9ded56499844165d56f7ff9f69a8/src/attrib.c#L810

`pragma(mangle)` is intended to affect the name of symbols those have linkable data. In plain old "compile and link" model, only functions and variables can have symbol names in link-time (function is a named collection of cpu instructions, and variable is a named data). Templates, template instances, and any user defined types (struct, class, union, and interface) - the scoped symbols in D have no linkable data, because they're just compile-time entity. That's why it affects only functions and variables.

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/commit/2c0d5ccc84634acbe9b7ce5865dea6f91e5eb9c4 fix issue 14933 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/commit/c1c8f9e342e2485dd572e33c226beff22c811e80 Merge pull request #1069 from BBasile/patch-mangle-specs Issue 14933 - specifications for the pragma(mangle) are vague

Commits pushed to stable at https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/commit/2c0d5ccc84634acbe9b7ce5865dea6f91e5eb9c4 fix issue 14933 https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/commit/c1c8f9e342e2485dd572e33c226beff22c811e80 Merge pull request #1069 from BBasile/patch-mangle-specs