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On 2008-11-21 07:43:47 -0500, bearophile [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just found this cute article on Reddit: GCC hacks in the Linux kernel,
by M. Tim Jones:
Just found this cute article on Reddit: GCC hacks in the Linux kernel, by M.
Tim Jones:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gcc-hacks/index.html
Here are few comparisons between those featuers are D ones.
The range syntax that can be used in switch statements and array defintions
On 2008-11-21 07:43:47 -0500, bearophile [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Just found this cute article on Reddit: GCC hacks in the Linux
kernel, by M. Tim Jones:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-gcc-hacks/index.html
Here are few comparisons between those featuers are D ones.
The
Michel Fortin:
Just use data.ptr if you want to escape the bound checks.
Ah, thank you.
Do we need that when we have exceptions in D?
You are right. But maybe people that write a kernel may prefer to check error
return values instead of using exceptions. Note this article was about GCC used
bearophile Wrote:
Zero-length arrays are available in D, but the following code (used in C to
define a struct with ane or two variable-length arrays) can't be used,
because of array bound controls:
struct iso_block_store {
atomic_t refcount;
size_t data_size;
