Sorry if this has been asked/answered before but I've been out of the loop
for a while..
I was just thinking about the recent discussion on renaming toStringz and
I wondered why we need to explicitly call it at all. Why can't we have
the compiler call it automatically whenever we pass a st
On 7/8/2011 2:26 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
Why can't we have the
compiler call it automatically whenever we pass a string, or char[] to an extern
"C" function, where the parameter is defined as char*?
Because char* in C does not necessarily mean "zero terminated string".
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:49:08 +0100, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 7/8/2011 2:26 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
Why can't we have the
compiler call it automatically whenever we pass a string, or char[] to
an extern
"C" function, where the parameter is defined as char*?
Because char* in C does not nece
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:53:20 -0400, Regan Heath
wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:49:08 +0100, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 7/8/2011 2:26 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
Why can't we have the
compiler call it automatically whenever we pass a string, or char[] to
an extern
"C" function, where the param
This is kind of off-topic, and I don't know if it's just me, but I've
barely been able to use toStringz() where it's supposed to be useful:
I tried using it with a C function whose parameters are not
const(char)*, but just char*, but because it returns immutable(char)'s I
had to write my own o
On 7/8/2011 11:03 PM, SimonM wrote:
This is kind of off-topic, and I don't know if it's just me, but I've
barely been able to use toStringz() where it's supposed to be useful:
I tried using it with a C function whose parameters are not
const(char)*, but just char*, but because it returns immutab
On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:09:12 -0400, Steven Schveighoffer wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:13:53 -0400, Mike James wrote:
>
>> What's the latest thinking on the best repository for open-source D
>> code...
>> GitHub or dsource?
>
> Github provides much better collaborative source control. Howeve
On 2011-07-08 07:03, SimonM wrote:
> This is kind of off-topic, and I don't know if it's just me, but I've
> barely been able to use toStringz() where it's supposed to be useful:
>
> I tried using it with a C function whose parameters are not
> const(char)*, but just char*, but because it returns
@sean
if you install ldc2 like:
$ cmake . -DD_VERSION:STRING=2 -DCONF_INST_DIR:PATH=/etc
$ make -j4 VERBOSE=2
$ make -j4 install
and try install druntime from
https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git
I can't because make file is only for dmd. What i try to said, yes we need 1
drunti
On 2011-07-08 10:42, bioinfornatics wrote:
> @sean
> if you install ldc2 like:
> $ cmake . -DD_VERSION:STRING=2 -DCONF_INST_DIR:PATH=/etc
> $ make -j4 VERBOSE=2
> $ make -j4 install
>
> and try install druntime from
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/druntime.git I can't because
> make fi
On 7/8/2011 4:53 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
On Fri, 08 Jul 2011 10:49:08 +0100, Walter Bright
wrote:
On 7/8/2011 2:26 AM, Regan Heath wrote:
Why can't we have the
compiler call it automatically whenever we pass a string, or char[] to an extern
"C" function, where the parameter is defined as char*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaSBma22gNA
Andrei
== Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisp...@gmx.com)'s article
> On 2011-07-08 10:42, bioinfornatics wrote:
> > @sean
> > if you install ldc2 like:
> > $ cmake . -DD_VERSION:STRING=2 -DCONF_INST_DIR:PATH=/etc
> > $ make -j4 VERBOSE=2
> > $ make -j4 install
> >
> > and try install druntime from
> >
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> == Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisp...@gmx.com)'s article
> > On 2011-07-08 10:42, bioinfornatics wrote:
> > > @sean
> > > if you install ldc2 like:
> > > $ cmake . -DD_VERSION:STRING=2 -DCONF_INST_DIR:PATH=/etc
> > > $ make -j4 VERBOSE=2
> > > $ make -
On 2011-07-08 15:23, Brad Roberts wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > == Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisp...@gmx.com)'s article
> >
> > > On 2011-07-08 10:42, bioinfornatics wrote:
> > > > @sean
> > > > if you install ldc2 like:
> > > > $ cmake . -DD_VERSION:STRING=2 -DCONF_IN
Jonathan M Davis:
> Regardless, the overall situation with purity is improving.
I agree. Someday I hope to see another little improvement in the D type system,
to allow code like this to compile without the need of a cast of s2 to string
at the end:
string foo(in string s) pure nothrow { // st
== Quote from Brad Roberts (bra...@slice-2.puremagic.com)'s article
> On Fri, 8 Jul 2011, Iain Buclaw wrote:
> > == Quote from Jonathan M Davis (jmdavisp...@gmx.com)'s article
> > > On 2011-07-08 10:42, bioinfornatics wrote:
> > > > @sean
> > > > if you install ldc2 like:
> > > > $ cmake . -DD_VERS
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