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Issue 4399 - Incomplete extern (...) docs
Summary: Incomplete extern (...) docs
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dmd (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
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Keywords: spec
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Reported: 2010-06-27 16:59 UTC by Leandro Lucarella
Modified: 2015-06-09 05:10 UTC (History)
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Description Leandro Lucarella 2010-06-27 16:59:59 UTC 
Documentation on the extern storage class is both very sparse and very scarce.

* Most documentation is only about extern (C) and is present in an article about C compatibility or the ABI docs.

* I couldn't find any mention to extern (System) in all the specs.

* extern (C++) is only found in the article about interfacing with C++

* The only mention of extern (D) I found is in the ABI description.

* extern (Windows) is mostly mentioned only in the D for Win32 article.

I think it would be nice to have a central place where all extern (...) declarations are explained (or at least listed with links to their usage). A table like the available predefined versions for the version statement would be nice.
Comment 1 Walter Bright 2012-01-23 21:19:59 UTC 
dlang.org/attribute.html#linkage