Re: D needs to publicize its speed of compilation

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 11:39:48 UTC, user1234 wrote: If this ever happens, what will be published will have to be based on LDC2. If benchmarks based on DMD are published, the article will be subject to the criticism that is that the shorter build time is due to the optimization pass,

Re: DerelictGL3 glGenBuffers segmentation fault.

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 05:23:12 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: If you are going to use glFreeFuncs like this, you can't import opengl that way. As per the DerelictGL3 documentation [1], the simplest way to make this work is to implement a module that publicly imports derelict.opengl and

TypeInfo_Class.interfaces[n].classinfo has TypeInfo_Class and not TypeInfo_Interface?

I didn't get any response in learn for this so I will ask it here. TypeInfo_Class.interfaces[n].classinfo has TypeInfo_Class and not TypeInfo_Interface? Is this correct? Or is it a bug? Doesn't make much sense to me. Also the following code prints false so there are some consequences to

Re: DerelictGL3 glGenBuffers segmentation fault.

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 03:00:16 UTC, Kevin wrote: On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 01:42:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: I've found the problem. But first... I making a simple static library. I don't see a static library anywhere. You weren't "importing a static library", something which

[Issue 18053] Use stdint.h mangling for int64_t/uint64_t when mangling D long/ulong

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18053 --- Comment #4 from github-bugzi...@puremagic.com --- Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/dlang/dmd https://github.com/dlang/dmd/commit/517253e26f52b3ac8d81b6d881d2aff9fe2947d3 fix Issue 18053 - Use stdint.h mangling for int64_t/uint64_t

Re: Compile to non-OS binary

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 03:15:58 UTC, Amorphorious wrote: In fact, it would be very helpful to have switches that disable the various "features" of D that I will not use rather than having to do any self compilation. The way I did it was create a custom runtime only including the

Re: Compile to non-OS binary

Premature send(tabs?!?! ;/) void main() { version(BIOS) { import iBIOS; BIOSOut("Hello World"); } else { writeln("Hello World"); } } When compiled appropriately will create a bootable executable that displays the string. Else will create an OS specific

Compile to non-OS binary

I would like to compile D for the different supported architectures only without and OS, C lib, D lib, or GC code. For example, as a boot loader or even bios binary. In fact, it would be very helpful to have switches that disable the various "features" of D that I will not use rather than

Re: DerelictGL3 glGenBuffers segmentation fault.

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 01:42:58 UTC, Mike Parker wrote: Need more info than this. Some code that reproduces the issue would be helpful. Also, what do you mean by "import my library"? I making a simple static library. For I can go through Opengl tutorials again. Need to refresh my

Re: Does LDC support profiling at all?

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 12:23:33 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 09:52:26 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: DMD can use -profile and -profile=gc. But I tried for HOURS to find the equivalent for LDC and came up with only profile-guided optimization--which I don't

Re: GC in D and synadard library.

On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 10:49:46 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote: I started to look into D very recently. I would like to know the following, if you guys are so nice to help me: 1. What is the performance of D's GC, what trade-offs where done in design , and if a in-deep primer on

Re: WARN on implicit super?

On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 10:13:47 UTC, bauss wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 06:47:25 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote: [...] This is what I would believe __IS__ and __SHOULD__ be the default behavior too, because that's how it generally is in other languages. It doesn't make much

Re: Why does calling a struct constructor generate linker errors when using Better C?

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 01:29:56 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: Although maybe you ought to start out with regular D. -betterC is really there for those who want D but can't have druntime. They should already know D pretty well. I'm using -betterC on purpose, doing bare-metal

Re: DerelictGL3 glGenBuffers segmentation fault.

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 00:58:25 UTC, Kevin wrote: When I import my library into my program. glGenBuffers segmentation fault. When I copy VertexBuffer into main code. It works fine. Why am I getting segmentation fault from library ? Need more info than this. Some code that

Re: Why does calling a struct constructor generate linker errors when using Better C?

On 24/12/2017 1:25 AM, Stijn wrote: On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 01:21:53 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 24/12/2017 1:20 AM, Stijn wrote: [...] new uses GC. It has nothing to do with structs. Oh I see, simply removing 'new' solves the problem. I've a C# background, so I hadn't thought

Re: Why does calling a struct constructor generate linker errors when using Better C?

On Sunday, 24 December 2017 at 01:21:53 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote: On 24/12/2017 1:20 AM, Stijn wrote: [...] new uses GC. It has nothing to do with structs. Oh I see, simply removing 'new' solves the problem. I've a C# background, so I hadn't thought of doing that. Thanks!

Why does calling a struct constructor generate linker errors when using Better C?

https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html doesn't mention struct constructors not working, but I'm getting linker errors when trying to call a struct constructor. Consider the following program betterc.d struct foo { } extern(C) void main() { auto bar = new foo(); }

Re: Why does calling a struct constructor generate linker errors when using Better C?

On 24/12/2017 1:20 AM, Stijn wrote: https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html doesn't mention struct constructors not working, but I'm getting linker errors when trying to call a struct constructor. Consider the following program betterc.d     struct foo     {     }     extern(C) void main()

DerelictGL3 glGenBuffers segmentation fault.

I'm working a library with DerelictGL3. using branch 2.0 import derelict.opengl; import std.stdio : writeln; struct VertexBuffer { GLuint vbo; GLsizei count; this(GLsizei n) { writeln("creating vbo"); glGenBuffers(n, ); writeln("created vbo");

[Issue 9960] Show warnings/deprecations during template instantiation

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9960 Iain Buclaw changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED

[Issue 18117] New: ldiv_t struct in core.stdc.stdlib -- int vs c_long expectations

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18117 Issue ID: 18117 Summary: ldiv_t struct in core.stdc.stdlib -- int vs c_long expectations Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW

indexing stuff during compile time

I am trying to build a string->int dictionary at compile time. The ints are unique and must not be greater than the number of unique strings. So, they are sequential for each string that is not yet indexed. Example: size_t idx1 = nameToIndex!"blah"; // 0 size_t idx2 = nameToIndex!"blah2"; //

Re: D downloads

On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 09:04:52PM +, Laeeth Isharc via Digitalmars-d wrote: > http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png > > Bad data, one off spike, or something else? D is finally catching on? :-D (So I hope. :-P) T -- Food and laptops don't mix.

Re: D downloads

On 12/23/2017 1:04 PM, Laeeth Isharc wrote: http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png Bad data, one off spike, or something else? Wow!

Re: excel-d v0.2.16 - now with more @Async

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 22:08:23 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 00:41:31 UTC, Atila Neves wrote: excel-d lets you write plain D code that can be run from Excel unmodified via the magic of compile-time reflection. [...] can we use excel-d with office for mac? I

Re: What does scope do as storage class?

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 21:20:13 UTC, Jonathan M Davis wrote: On Saturday, December 23, 2017 21:05:25 Marc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: for example: scope struct S { int x; } What does scope do here? Absolutely nothing.

Re: GC in D and synadard library.

On Thursday, December 21, 2017 12:00:17 Mike Franklin via Digitalmars-d- learn wrote: > I'm not a big user of the standard library, but I believe most > features of the standard library require the GC. Actually, relatively little in Phobos explicitly uses the GC. There are some things that

Re: What does scope do as storage class?

On Saturday, December 23, 2017 21:05:25 Marc via Digitalmars-d-learn wrote: > for example: > > scope struct S { >int x; > } > > What does scope do here? Absolutely nothing. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47240714/d-pure-classes-and-structs - Jonathan M Davis

What does scope do as storage class?

for example: scope struct S { int x; } What does scope do here?

Re: Does LDC support profiling at all?

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 12:23:33 UTC, Johan Engelen wrote: Fine grained PGO profiling: -fprofile-instr-generate http://johanengelen.github.io/ldc/2016/07/15/Profile-Guided-Optimization-with-LDC.html Function entry/exit profiling: -finstrument-functions

D downloads

http://erdani.com/d/downloads.daily.png Bad data, one off spike, or something else?

Re: Blog post: using dynamic libraries in dub

On 12/23/2017 6:26 AM, Jacob Carlborg wrote: On 2017-12-23 00:18, Walter Bright wrote: Is there a bugzilla issue with just what is wrong with the TLS code generation on macOS? There's nothing wrong with TLS on macOS. It's just that there are additional work that needs to be done. Just the

[Issue 18114] dmd 2.078-beta1: regex performance regression

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18114 --- Comment #4 from Jon Degenhardt --- The two programs attached can be used to compare regex match performance. Compile find_regex.d with both DMD 2.077.1 and DMD 2.078.0-beta1. eg. $ dmd2.078.0-beta1 -release -O

[Issue 18114] dmd 2.078-beta1: regex performance regression

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18114 --- Comment #3 from Jon Degenhardt --- Created attachment 1670 --> https://issues.dlang.org/attachment.cgi?id=1670=edit gen_strings.d: Generates input for find_regex.d --

[Issue 18114] dmd 2.078-beta1: regex performance regression

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18114 Jon Degenhardt changed: What|Removed |Added Attachment #1669|Reduced program, it counts |find_regex.d:

[Issue 18114] dmd 2.078-beta1: regex performance regression

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18114 --- Comment #2 from Jon Degenhardt --- Created attachment 1669 --> https://issues.dlang.org/attachment.cgi?id=1669=edit Reduced program, it counts regex matches in input lines --

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 09:10:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: On 12/22/2017 7:23 AM, Russel Winder wrote: I think we are now in a world where Rust is the zero cost abstraction language to replace C and C++, except for those who are determined to stay with C++ and evolve it. Maybe it

DUB describe error in Eclipse

Eclipse: Version: Neon.3 Release (4.6.3) Platform: Ubuntu 16.04 I have a running version of dub and dmd that works from the command line. But does not work from Eclipse (DDT). When i CTRL+Click on a function or module it should take me to the source, instead if gives the following error:

Re: Translation of documentation

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 16:46:17 UTC, Seb wrote: Cool! Do you know how to build dlang.org yourself? (Clone/fork the repo and run make -f Po HTML). Then you can upload the generated HTML files anywhere. If you want to, I can create a repo for you at github.com/dlang-community BTW do

Re: Translation of documentation

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 16:43:29 UTC, Temtaime wrote: Every programmer knows English. For which purpose are you doing that ? Better try to improve existing documentation. Of course programmers know English but reading texts in their native language is better.

Re: Translation of documentation

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 16:33:46 UTC, Andrey wrote: Hello! I would like to make a small contribution to D. I want and I'm ready to begin a translation of documentation (https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html) from English into Russian. What should I do to implement it? Best regards,

[Issue 18116] to!wchar([string, dstring]), and to!char([wstring, dstring]) don't compile

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18116 dechcaudron+dlang.issue.track...@protonmail.com changed: What|Removed |Added Assignee|nob...@puremagic.com

Re: Translation of documentation

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 16:33:46 UTC, Andrey wrote: Hello! I would like to make a small contribution to D. I want and I'm ready to begin a translation of documentation (https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html) from English into Russian. What should I do to implement it? Best regards,

[Issue 18116] New: to!wchar([string, dstring]), and to!char([wstring, dstring]) don't compile

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18116 Issue ID: 18116 Summary: to!wchar([string, dstring]), and to!char([wstring, dstring]) don't compile Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: x86_64 OS: All

Translation of documentation

Hello! I would like to make a small contribution to D. I want and I'm ready to begin a translation of documentation (https://dlang.org/spec/spec.html) from English into Russian. What should I do to implement it? Best regards, Andrey.

Re: Finding equivalent of C++ feature in D documentation.

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 15:58:27 UTC, Seb wrote: On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 15:45:33 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 15:04:30 UTC, kerdemdemir wrote: Is there any better way for me to search C/C++ equivalent features? As a humble suggestion would it

Re: unit-threaded v0.7.33

Thanks for this library Atila. An update is always appreciated.

Re: Blog post: using dynamic libraries in dub

On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 13:44:18 UTC, Benjamin Thaut wrote: Ideally we should end up with visibility hidden being the default and only making symbols visible which use "export", because that is what it was designed for in the first place. Yes, that's the long-term goal.

Re: Finding equivalent of C++ feature in D documentation.

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 15:45:33 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote: On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 15:04:30 UTC, kerdemdemir wrote: Is there any better way for me to search C/C++ equivalent features? As a humble suggestion would it make sense to make a table with feature names and

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 09:23:22 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote: You could name it Deimos. That name's already taken: https://github.com/D-Programming-Deimos/ Deimos is a repository of D language bindings to many existing libraries, though sadly it doesn't appear to get much

Re: Finding equivalent of C++ feature in D documentation.

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 15:04:30 UTC, kerdemdemir wrote: Is there any better way for me to search C/C++ equivalent features? As a humble suggestion would it make sense to make a table with feature names and corresponding name of the same feature in other languages ? Try this:

Finding equivalent of C++ feature in D documentation.

I needed to find equivalent of member initialization list in D. After searching ~10 minutes I found D has very elegant solution (https://dlang.org/spec/class.html#field-init) after reading through whole constructor page. My question is not technical this time I have my solution. But I think

Re: Blog post: using dynamic libraries in dub

On 2017-12-23 00:18, Walter Bright wrote: Is there a bugzilla issue with just what is wrong with the TLS code generation on macOS? There's nothing wrong with TLS on macOS. It's just that there are additional work that needs to be done. Just the same as TLS worked before dynamic libraries

Re: Compiler gets confused with ambiguity when `int` matches both `real` and `float`.

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 07:25:34 UTC, IM wrote: The following expression: import std.math : sqrt; sqrt(400); produces the following compiler error: std.math.sqrt called with argument types (int) matches both: /usr/include/dmd/phobos/std/math.d(1592,7): std.math.sqrt(float x)

Re: One liner for creating an array filled by a factory method

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 08:57:18 UTC, kerdemdemir wrote: On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 23:33:55 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 21:11:58 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 12/21/17 4:00 PM, kerdemdemir wrote: I have a case like : http://rextester.com/NFS28102 I

Re: Does LDC support profiling at all?

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 09:52:26 UTC, Chris Katko wrote: DMD can use -profile and -profile=gc. But I tried for HOURS to find the equivalent for LDC and came up with only profile-guided optimization--which I don't believe I want. Yet, if we can get PGO... where's the PROFILE itself it's

[Issue 18100] crt_constructor not allow to init immutable

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18100 --- Comment #7 from Steven Schveighoffer --- (In reply to Iain Buclaw from comment #6) > This has got nothing to do with "betterC", whatever that means. Actually, this is all about betterC. betterC means no druntime, which

Re: [DMD or LDC] Is it possible to get the GC to print to stdout when it collects?

On 23/12/2017 11:06 AM, Chris Katko wrote: I'm having a strange stuttering issue in my game prototype. I use GC allocations wildly for the heck of it at the moment--with eventual plans to remove them. However, I'm not positive it's the GC that's the problem, and if so, I want to know exact

[Issue 18115] [REG2.078-b1] case where && is not shortcut anymore in CTFE

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18115 Basile B. changed: What|Removed |Added Keywords||CTFE --

[Issue 18115] New: [REG2.078-b1] case where && is not shortcut anymore in CTFE

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18115 Issue ID: 18115 Summary: [REG2.078-b1] case where && is not shortcut anymore in CTFE Product: D Version: D2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW

Re: Strange vibe.d build error

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 10:39:37 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 21:10:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: After pulling from vibe.d git master today, my vibe.d project doesn't compile anymore. `dub build` dies with:

[DMD or LDC] Is it possible to get the GC to print to stdout when it collects?

I'm having a strange stuttering issue in my game prototype. I use GC allocations wildly for the heck of it at the moment--with eventual plans to remove them. However, I'm not positive it's the GC that's the problem, and if so, I want to know exact lengths of time and frequency. Currently,

Re: Strange vibe.d build error

On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 21:10:39 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote: After pulling from vibe.d git master today, my vibe.d project doesn't compile anymore. `dub build` dies with: /usr/src/d/vibe.d/stream/vibe/stream/memory.d(56,42): Error: constructor vibe.utils.array.AllocAppender!(ubyte[],

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 15:23:51 UTC, Russel Winder wrote: I think we are now in a world where Rust is the zero cost abstraction language to replace C and C++, except for those who are determined to stay with C++ and evolve it. Well..there are plenty who are determined to stay with

[Issue 18100] crt_constructor not allow to init immutable

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18100 Iain Buclaw changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |RESOLVED

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

Russel Winder wrote: I think we are now in a world where Rust is the zero cost abstraction language to replace C and C++, except for those who are determined to stay with C++ and evolve it. sorry, but it is not zero cost. we have alot of C and C++ code. converting it to Rust is not zero cost

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 09:10:25 UTC, Walter Bright wrote: D as betterC really is a game changer, for anyone who cares to give it a try. Walter, would you expect a std suitable for betterC to be specified in the language ? You could name it Deimos.

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On 12/22/2017 7:23 AM, Russel Winder wrote: I think we are now in a world where Rust is the zero cost abstraction language to replace C and C++, except for those who are determined to stay with C++ and evolve it. Maybe it is. But that is not because D isn't up to the task. I've converted a

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 16:17:33 UTC, Dan Partelly wrote: Why should we settle for this ? D code (efortless) is easier to read then Rust. Such statement is highly controversial, since it can be said about C/C++, D and most other languages as well.

Re: One liner for creating an array filled by a factory method

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 23:33:55 UTC, Mengu wrote: On Thursday, 21 December 2017 at 21:11:58 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer wrote: On 12/21/17 4:00 PM, kerdemdemir wrote: I have a case like : http://rextester.com/NFS28102 I have a factory method, I am creating some instances given some

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On Saturday, 23 December 2017 at 01:12:53 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote: language it should be, not the language some C++ programmer wants but is never going to use anyway. Ironically, D is so close to beeing the language a C++ programmer would really use that you can smell it. It doesnt have to

Re: Maybe D is right about GC after all !

On Friday, 22 December 2017 at 17:21:12 UTC, Joakim wrote: You seem not to have read the original link and Walter's first post: why would we expend all that effort on a small, shrinking niche of the language market that is populated by a couple thousand diehard programmers who won't look at