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huonw opened this issue Aug 24, 2013 · 0 comments
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Add support for a export_name attribute to control the name of the symbol that is exported #8735

huonw opened this issue Aug 24, 2013 · 0 comments
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A-attributes Area: Attributes (`#[…]`, `#![…]`) A-linkage Area: linking into static, shared libraries and binaries C-enhancement Category: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one.

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huonw commented Aug 24, 2013

Similar to #[no_mangle] but allows exporting symbols named a keyword (e.g. @jensnockert tells me that Arduino requires a function called loop).

#[export_name="loop"] 
fn arduino_loop() { // becomes the `loop` symbol
 // ...
}

(Name is entirely bikeshed-able; I have no connection to export_name.)
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