> D understands how C++ function names are "mangled" and the correct C++ function call/return sequence.

How does it work in practice ? C++ name mangling is not standardized and so every compiler can implement its own scheme. So does it mean there is a list of D compatible c++ compiler somewhere ? I have the feeling that if you are using some exotic proprietary c++ compiler it won't work well.

There was some interesting discussion regarding this here recently in the comments regarding a Rust demangling library[1].

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13706799

In practice there are two dominating standards nowadays, the Itanium ABI and Microsoft's, so it's quite tractable to handle the common cases.

Thanks, I might be biased because I have a legacy platform still using gcc 2.7, which is older than the adoption of the Itanium ABI.

> C++ name mangling is not standardized and so every compiler can implement its own scheme.

That's right, and the D compiler deals with that by customizing the C++ mangling for every platform.

I am just curious what the actual list is, it is surely not possible to support every version of every compiler on every platform.

We don't. We pick one.