On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 3:35 PM 9898287 via Digitalmars-d-learn <digitalmars-d-learn@puremagic.com> wrote: > > What's the function for converting a ulong to a native-endian > byte array? > For example, > > auto bytes = 0x1234567890123456u64.to_ne_bytes(); > // should yield > // [0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0x78, 0x90, 0x12, 0x34, 0x56] in big-endian > and > // [0x56, 0x34, 0x12, 0x90, 0x78, 0x56, 0x34, 0x12] in > little-endian systems > > Also, what's the function for constructing a ulong from a > native-endian byte array? > For example, > > auto value = from_be_bytes!ulong([0x12, 0x34, 0x56, 0x78, 0x90, > 0x12, 0x34, 0x56]); > // value is 0x1234567890123456 > > Rust equivalent: > https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/primitive.u64.html#method.to_ne_bytes
You could use https://dlang.org/phobos/std_bitmanip.html#write https://dlang.org/phobos/std_bitmanip.html#read