Re: Translating C headers to D: How do I compile it?

2020-06-27 Thread mw via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 04:59:12 UTC, Kirill wrote: Hello. I am learning how to translate C headers to D. But how do I compile it? I am stuck with this. You can try just to use dpp: https://code.dlang.org/packages/dpp instead of doing the translation manually.

Re: Translating C headers to D: How do I compile it?

2020-06-27 Thread rikki cattermole via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 28/06/2020 4:59 PM, Kirill wrote: module something; extern(C) int add(int a, int b); Compile as static library some.c, add to command line of dmd. Should be this simple more or less, depending on compilers and target involved.

Re: Translating C headers to D: How do I compile it?

2020-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Sunday, 28 June 2020 at 04:59:12 UTC, Kirill wrote: Hello. I am learning how to translate C headers to D. But how do I compile it? I am stuck with this. I have 4 files in the same directory: main.d, something.d, some.h, some.c some.h: //header guards int add(int a, int b); some.c: #inclu

Translating C headers to D: How do I compile it?

2020-06-27 Thread Kirill via Digitalmars-d-learn
Hello. I am learning how to translate C headers to D. But how do I compile it? I am stuck with this. I have 4 files in the same directory: main.d, something.d, some.h, some.c some.h: //header guards int add(int a, int b); some.c: #include "some.h" int add(int a, int b) { return a+b; } somet

Re: foreach iterator with closure

2020-06-27 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 6/27/20 8:19 PM, Denis wrote: > Is it possible to write an iterator It is arguable whether D's ranges are iterators but if nouns are useful, we call them ranges. :) (Iterators can be written in D as well and then it would really be confusing.) >struct letters { > string str; >

foreach iterator with closure

2020-06-27 Thread Denis via Digitalmars-d-learn
Is it possible to write an iterator that does the following, using a struct and some functions? - Operates in a foreach loop - Has BEGIN-like and END-like blocks or functions that are executed automatically, before and after the iterations - Initializes variables in the BEGIN block that are

Re: mixin template compile-time compute declared name

2020-06-27 Thread NonNull via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 21:23:10 UTC, Adam D. Ruppe wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 21:10:59 UTC, NonNull wrote: Is it possible to use a template to declare something whose name is computed at compile time? You'd have to string mixin the contents inside the mixin template. Worked!

Re: mixin template compile-time compute declared name

2020-06-27 Thread Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 21:10:59 UTC, NonNull wrote: Is it possible to use a template to declare something whose name is computed at compile time? You'd have to string mixin the contents inside the mixin template.

mixin template compile-time compute declared name

2020-06-27 Thread NonNull via Digitalmars-d-learn
Want mixin mytemplate!("foo", .); to be able to declare names dependent upon the text foo in the context it is used. For example declaring enum x_foo = ; blah foo_value = ; . . . . Is it po

Re: How to send ownerTid into a parallel foreach loop?

2020-06-27 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 07:51:21 UTC, adnan338 wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 07:31:56 UTC, Kagamin wrote: std.concurrency is for noninteractive appications, the approach with gui timer was the correct one. Thank you. That works but my progress bar is sometimes getting stuck because

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread James Gray via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 14:49:34 UTC, James Gray wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 14:12:09 UTC, kinke wrote: [...] Thank you for doing this. I hope my example doesn't obscure what you show here. (I borrowed some of your code). [...] In case it helps, setting all the next and previ

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 16:03:12 UTC, kinke wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:27:34 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: Hrm... What happens if you call collect() twice? Nothing changes, even when collecting 5 times at the end of each iteration. In the filed testcase, I've extracted the s

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 15:27:34 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 14:12:09 UTC, kinke wrote: Note that I explicitly clear the `str` slice before GC.collect(), so that the stack shouldn't contain any refs to the fat string anymore. Hrm... What happens if you call

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 14:12:09 UTC, kinke wrote: Note that I explicitly clear the `str` slice before GC.collect(), so that the stack shouldn't contain any refs to the fat string anymore. Hrm... What happens if you call collect() twice?

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread James Gray via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 14:12:09 UTC, kinke wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 10:08:15 UTC, James Gray wrote: have run into a memory leak Something seems really off indeed. I've run this on Win64 with DMD (2.092) and LDC (1.22), without any extra cmdline options: - import core.me

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn
=> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20983

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread kinke via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 10:08:15 UTC, James Gray wrote: have run into a memory leak Something seems really off indeed. I've run this on Win64 with DMD (2.092) and LDC (1.22), without any extra cmdline options: - import core.memory; import core.stdc.stdio; import std.range; import st

Re: Arduino and MCU Support

2020-06-27 Thread Dylan Graham via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Friday, 26 June 2020 at 09:30:15 UTC, Dukc wrote: On Thursday, 25 June 2020 at 03:00:04 UTC, Dylan Graham wrote: I'm currently making an automatic transmission controller with Arduino. C++ just has too many traps that I keep falling into. Since stability is critical (if the code screws up at

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread James Gray via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 12:07:19 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:35:12 UTC, Arafel wrote: If you are using linux, have in mind that the memory is often not returned to the OS even after a (libc) free. That's a good observation. Although a GC implementation is

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread James Gray via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 12:53:01 UTC, James Gray wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 12:07:19 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:35:12 UTC, Arafel wrote: [...] That's a good observation. Although a GC implementation is not required to actually use malloc, so d

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:35:12 UTC, Arafel wrote: If you are using linux, have in mind that the memory is often not returned to the OS even after a (libc) free. That's a good observation. Although a GC implementation is not required to actually use malloc, so depending on that falls in

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Arafel via Digitalmars-d-learn
On 27/6/20 13:21, Stanislav Blinov wrote: I would think collect + minimize should do the trick. Just keep in mind that that's grossly inefficient. If you are using linux, have in mind that the memory is often not returned to the OS even after a (libc) free. If you check with tools like `top

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:11:38 UTC, James Gray wrote: I am measuring the memory usage using top from the command line. GC.minimize() does seem to stop the leak. That is not a memory leak. That's the allocator keeping pages for itself to not have to go to the kernel every time you alloc

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Mike Parker via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:11:38 UTC, James Gray wrote: I am measuring the memory usage using top from the command line. GC.minimize() does seem to stop the leak. But it doesn't explain why the program isn't releasing essentially all the memory between calls to f (it using around 2GB ram

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread James Gray via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 11:00:58 UTC, Stanislav Blinov wrote: On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 10:08:15 UTC, James Gray wrote: I find that the memory usage grows to about 1.5GB and never decreases. Is there something I am not understanding? How are you measuring that? GC.collect() does not n

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread Stanislav Blinov via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 10:08:15 UTC, James Gray wrote: I find that the memory usage grows to about 1.5GB and never decreases. Is there something I am not understanding? How are you measuring that? GC.collect() does not necessarily release the pages to the OS. For that, there's the GC.mi

Re: Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread James Gray via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 10:08:15 UTC, James Gray wrote: I am writing a web application using vibe.d (not sure whether that is relevant or not), and have run into a memory leak. I wrote the following code to try and replicate the problem. [...] I now compiled the same code above with ldc

Garbage collection

2020-06-27 Thread James Gray via Digitalmars-d-learn
I am writing a web application using vibe.d (not sure whether that is relevant or not), and have run into a memory leak. I wrote the following code to try and replicate the problem. import std.algorithm; import std.range; import std.format; import std.stdio; import core.thread; import core.memo

Re: How to send ownerTid into a parallel foreach loop?

2020-06-27 Thread adnan338 via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Saturday, 27 June 2020 at 07:31:56 UTC, Kagamin wrote: std.concurrency is for noninteractive appications, the approach with gui timer was the correct one. Thank you. That works but my progress bar is sometimes getting stuck because of a possible data race. See https://forum.dlang.org/post/

Re: How to send ownerTid into a parallel foreach loop?

2020-06-27 Thread Kagamin via Digitalmars-d-learn
std.concurrency is for noninteractive appications, the approach with gui timer was the correct one.