On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 06:33:03 UTC, CJS wrote:
Thanks! I'm confused why that module isn't mentioned in the library reference page.
I don't know.
What's the difference between core.stdc and std.c?
std.c is what it was called in earlier versions of D, before there was a clear separation between phobos as the standard library (std.*) and druntime as the runtime library (core.*). Phobos is supposed to be 100% on top of druntime, so it is optional and interchangeable with ease.
The runtime, however, needed access to some C functions for its own implementation. Since it isn't allowed to depend on std.*, the C functions got moved into core.*.
The older std.c is kept around just for compatibility with the old names before the move, at least as far as I know. Maybe they haven't fully deprecated it though because there's other reasons I don't know about, since it has been many years now since the move.
